This is a bibliography of works by the Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor Anne Carson.
Writings + List of scholarship, poetry, essays, novels, scripts, libretti, plays, and comic books Title Year Notes Odi et Amo Ergo Sum1981 [Doctoral thesis; under the name Anne Carson Giacomelli]Canicula di Anna1984Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay1986Eros the Bittersweet:Short Talks1992Short Talks:
Glass, Irony, and God1995Plainwater: Essays and PoetryPlainwater:Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse1998Autobiography of Red:Glass and GodEconomy of the Unlost (Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan)1999Men in the Off Hours2000The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos2001The Mirror of Simple Souls: An Opera Installation (Libretto)2003Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera2005Nox2010Antigonick (Sophokles)2012Antigonick (Sophokles):
Red Doc>2013Nay RatherThe Albertine Workout2014The Albertine Workout:
Float2016The Mile-Long Opera: A Biography of 7 O'Clock2018Norma Jeane Baker of Troy2019The Trojan Women: A Comic2021Briefly reviewed in the June 21, 2021 issue of The New Yorker, p.61.H of H PlaybookWrong Norma2024The Gender of Sound2025Originally published in Glass, Irony, and God
Translations + List of translations of Ancient Greek texts Title Year Source material Notes Sophocles, Electra2001If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho2002If Not, Winter:
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides2006An Oresteia2009Euripides, Iphigenia Among the Taurians2014Sophokles, Antigone2015Euripides, Bakkhai
Contributions Books and broadsides + List of contributions to books and broadsides Title Year Publication and notes Type "How Bad a Poem is Semonides Fragment I?"1984Greek Poetry and Philosophy:Studies in Honour of Leonard Woodbury"Syracuse and the Monies of Simonides"1989Syracuse, the Fairest Greek City: Ancient Artfrom the Museo Archeologico Regionale 'Paolo Orsi'''
|style="text-align:left"|"Putting Her in Her Place: Woman, Dirt, and Desire" |1990 |Before Sexuality: The Construction ofErotic Experience in the Ancient Greek World|
|style="text-align:left"|"Simonides Painter" |1992 |Innovations of Antiquity|
|style="text-align:left"|"Screaming in Translation: The Elektra of Sophokles" | rowspan="2"|1996 |Sophocles' "Electra" in Performance|
|style="text-align:left"|"Justice of Aphrodite in Sappho I" |Reading Sappho: Contemporary Approaches|
|style="text-align:left"|"Sappho Shock" |1997 |Dwelling in Possibility:Women Poets and Critics on Poetry|
|style="text-align:left"|"The Gender of Sound" |1998 |Cassandra: Voices from the Inside|
|style="text-align:left"|"Dirt and Desire:The Phenomenology of Female Pollution in Antiquity" |1999 |Constructions of the Classical Body|
|style="text-align:left"|"Quadrat I and II" |2000 |Writers at the Movies:Twenty-six Contemporary Authors CelebrateTwenty-six Memorable Movies|
|style="text-align:left"|"Strange Hour, Outcast Hour" |2001 |The Threepenny Review|
|style="text-align:left"|"Answer Scars: My Roni Horn Project, An Optional Comic, by AC" | rowspan="2"|2004 |Wonderwater (Alice Offshore) by Roni Horn
|style="text-align:left"|"Soundtrack" |Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film|
|style="text-align:left"|"Introduction" | rowspan="2"|2006 |It by Inger Christensen
|style="text-align:left"|"Fourth Choral Ode from Euripides' Hippolytos"
|style="text-align:left"|"could", "double", "her", "then", "too" |2009 |Roni Horn aka Roni Horn: Subject Index|
|style="text-align:left"|"The Little Maid and the Gentleman, or, We Are Seven,William Wordsworth" | rowspan="3"|2011 |Know the Past, Find the Future:The New York Public Library at 100|
|style="text-align:left"|"The Goat at Midnight" |Sixty-Six Books:21st-Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible|
|style="text-align:left"|"Pinplay" |Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae|
|style="text-align:left"|"The Withness of the Body" | rowspan="2"|2012 |Boat by Laurie Anderson
|style="text-align:left"|"The Artist Searches etc. Water Log" |Jim Shaw: The Rinse Cycle|
|style="text-align:left"|"Flotage (Border)" |2013 |Janet Werner: Another Perfect Day|
|style="text-align:left"|"Good Dog I, II, III" |2014 |Jürgen Partenheimer: Das Archiv – The Archive|
|style="text-align:left"|"Bluish" | rowspan="7"|2015 |The Blue of Distance|
|style="text-align:left"|"Collaborating on Decreation: An Interview with Anne Carson" |Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre|
|style="text-align:left"|"Hack Gloss" |Hack Wit by Roni Horn
|style="text-align:left"|"This Bird That Never Settles:A Virtual Conversation with Anne Carson about Greek Tragedy";includes "Quicktime Prometheus" |The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas|
|style="text-align:left"|"Sappho Drives Upstate (Fr. 2)" |Freeman's: Arrival|
|style="text-align:left"|"Suppose a Lone Man" |John Skoog: Slow Return. Värn|
|style="text-align:left"|"Good Dog I, II, III" |Jürgen Partenheimer: Calliope|
|style="text-align:left"|"Letter to Krito" |2017 |Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison|
|style="text-align:left"|"Poverty Remix (Sestina)" | rowspan="2"|2018 |Beggars by Andrea Büttner
|style="text-align:left"|"Part II: Handful of Dirt" |Antigone Undone by Will Aitken
|style="text-align:left"|"Do Not Believe Your Thoughts Said Paisios of Mt Athos" |2019 |The Great Tamer by Dimitris Papaioannou
|style="text-align:left"|"Unofficial Transcripts of Notes Taken During the Q&A Followingthe Pig Lake Seminar (Ragnar Contra Nietzsche), April 2019,With Participants Bertolt Brecht, Simon Critchley, Geoff Dyer,Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, Lou Salomé, Slavoj Žižek" | rowspan="2"|2020 |Looking Writing Reading Looking:Writers on Art from the Louisiana Collection|
|style="text-align:left"|"A Rustle of Catullus" |Cy Twombly: Making Past Present''
Journals and literary magazines