Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980-1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow. and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.
In high school, a Latin instructor introduced Carson to the world and language of Ancient Greece and tutored her privately. Enrolling at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, she left twice—at the end of her first and second years. Carson, disconcerted by curricular constraints (particularly by a required course on Milton), retired to the world of graphic arts for a short time. She did eventually return to the University of Toronto where she completed her B.A. in 1974, her M.A. in 1975 and her Ph.D. in 1981. She also spent a year studying Greek metrics and Greek textual criticism at the University of St Andrews.
There's An Angry Son, He's Smilin' Grimly
at Me
he's Got A Gun In His Hand, He's Gonna
let Me See
i'm Gonna Run To Hide, Under The Fallen
tree
and I Scream,"why Can I Be?"
there's A Blue Old Man With A Gaping
mouth
he Wants To Swallow Me Up, He Wants
to Spit Me Out
he Takes Me To The Other Side, The Light
of His Mind