Anne Carson is an award-winning Canadian poet and academic with a specialism in ancient Greek. This excerpt is from her 2013 book-length poem, Red Doc>, a sequel to her Autobiography of Red (Jonathan Cape 1998), a ‘novel in verse’ which is loosely based around the myth of Geryon and the labours of Heracles. Red Doc> continues the story of Geryon, who is in this text called simply ‘G’. In this extract — written in a sort of poetic prose — Carson renders G’s painful relationship with his ageing mother through a series of memories and striking images.
This extract from Red Doc> is reprinted here by permission of The Random House Group.
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