This a short verse novel that takes on a few forms (and like it’s subject could maybe be said to have many faces?). It’s an autobiography of a poet, it’s a novel about a mythical being, and it’s form of mythopoesis that brings that myth into the modern world. It’s not always doing all three at once, and at times jumps back and forth among those different tasks. We mostly are following Geryon, a three headed mythical creature who guards cattle in a far off […]
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a diffi-cult interval for a poet.
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
