Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

CBC Books | | Posted: May 3, 2021 4:40 PM | Last Updated: June 1, 2021

Anne Carson

Image | BOOK COVER: Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson

(New Directions)

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty, drawing together Helen of Troy and Marilyn Monroe, twin avatars of female fascination separated by millennia but united in mythopoeic force. Norma Jeane Baker was staged in the spring of 2019 at The Shed's Griffin Theater in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming and directed by Katie Mitchell. (From New Directions)

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry.

Anne Carson is one of Canada's most accomplished poets. Her accolades include a Guggenheim, a Lannan Foundation fellowship and a MacArthur "genius grant." She recently won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. She won the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001 for her collection Men in the Off Hours. She has written several poetry collections, including Autobiography of Red, Antigonick and Red Doc>.

Interviews with Anne Carson

Media Audio | The Sunday Edition : The catastrophic poetry of Anne Carson (reprise)

Caption: We revisit Michael Enright’s 2016 interview with renowned Canadian poet Anne Carson. They spoke about her fascination with grammar and syntax ("the secrets of life are embedded in grammar,") and why she calls writing "an attempt at catastrophe."

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Media Audio | Writers and Company : Anne Carson Interview

Caption: Eleanor speaks with Canadian poet, essayist, Greek and Latin scholar, and librettist, Anne Carson - on stage at Montreal's Blue Metropolis Festival.

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Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

Interviews with Anne Carson

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