“She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote.” (
Susan Sontag )
“Carson is nothing less than brilliant—unfalteringly sharp indiction, audacious, and judicious in taking liberties.” (
Publishers Weekly )
“Reading Anne Carson is to experience aeuphonious, mystical sort of perplexity.” (
Richard Bernstein - The New York Times )
“Her poetry is light, swift, and beautiful.” (
The New Yorker )
“The reader, the listener is provoked and challenged to the utmost.” (
The Times Literary Supplement )
“It is a cry of grief posed in question form, emphatic, handwritten, excessive and abbreviated and, in this sense, a measured scream that gives us some sense of who or what lives on when it is all too late.” (
Judith Butler - Public Books )
“Such light-handed scholarship is characteristic of Carson, a poet interested in those moments when precedents can't be found and normal translations fail.” (
The Guardian )
“Ms. Carson does more than just update the language and quicken the pacing–she rewrites the play, mines its subtleties, its absurdity and its strangely comic timing and manages to produce a unique text out of a story that goes back much further than the fifth century when Sophocles wrote his version.” (
The Guardian )
“Carson's poetry convinces. Carson's work is irrepressibly modern and provoking.” (
The Oxonian Review )
“
A beautiful, bewildering book, wondrous and a bit scary to behold, that gives a reader much to think about without making it clear how she should feel.
” (
Slate )
“[Antigonick] is both riveting and humorous. Bianca Stone's illustrations are immediate and visceral, and Robert Currie's overall book design has elegance and strength.” (
The Globe and Mail )
“Stone's illustrations and the hand-lettered text make
Antigonick a beautiful object.” (
livemint.com & The Wall Street Journal )
“Carson and Stone have crafted something of an entirely new spirit.” (
Guernica )
“In Carson's hands, this small, familiar Greek volume takes on a thunderously fresh rhythm, a satisfying blend of poetry and prose.” (
KGB Bar Lit Magazine )
“Her poetry at it's best, like Antigone's character, is a thrilling combination of hot-blooded instinct and dispassionate resolve.” (
National Post )
“
Antigonick plays extensively with the conventions of narrative form, translation, and the physical presentation of literature.” (
The Rumpus )
“
Antigonick is as much a re-telling as it is a testament to the importance of
Antigone in Western art, of re-tellings, and of refiguring narrative.” (
Critical Mob )
“The experiment's a fascinating one, and this interesting, risk-taking book is unignorable.” (
The Independent )
“Her poetry is expressionistic (you see this in
Antigonick), shot through with a spiritual turbulence and an almost violent sensitivity to experience, and the barbed edges of her lines can send shocks through you.” (
Full Stop )
“Carson's
Antigonick is wildly unorthodox. But it's also captivating, in a brash, pop culture-inflected way.” (
Thestar.com )
“This is where Carson's best work is staged: in the uncanny gateway between the temporal and the timeless; in the nick between the world of powerboats and the sublime, terrifying realm of the dead and the still lively gods.” (
New Statesman )
“
Antigonick has arrived at the right cultural moment.” (
The New Inquiry )
“One of the best designed books of the year and a unique reading experience.” (
Suicide Girls )
