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Anne Carson is, for me, the most fascinating poet creating in English today."--Michael Ondaatje

"This e-book is amazing--I haven't uncovered any composing in many years so marvelously disturbing." --Alice Munro


The award-successful poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning operate that is each a novel and a poem, each an unconventional re-development of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly unique coming-of-age story set in the current.

Geryon, a youthful boy who is also a winged red monster, unveils the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of 5. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, locating solace behind the lens of his digicam and in the arms of a youthful male named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later on, Geryon confronts once again the soreness of his wish and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative creativeness to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively easy, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly shifting portrait of an artist coming to phrases with the fantastic accident of who he is.<br><a href=http://romansalazar718.livejournal.com/684.html>autoescuelas-cebra</a>

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