anne carson’s autobiography of red

reading anne carson’s ‘autobiography of red.’ no one uses language the way she does. suffused with imagery, unfettered, astonishing. here are a few examples from the beginning of the book:

burrowed himself down in the red dawn jelly of geryon’s dream
the sound of the horses like roses being burnt alive
not a bee moved up geryon’s spine
steps off a scraped sky and into the blind atlantic morning
the red world and corresponding red breezes went on, geryon did not

“Autobiography of Red is a verse novel by Anne Carson, based loosely on the myth of Geryon and the Tenth Labor of Herakles, especially on surviving fragments of the lyric poet Stesichorus’ poem Geryoneis.”

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