Autobiography of Red | 
pickA version of the story of Geryon and Heracles set in modern times (the book is written in 1998).
The book started and ended with some references to the original Greek myth. I didn‘t quite get the point of that, so I‘m afraid I might have something.
I did enjoy the updated version.
This is one of the best books I‘ve read this year—unique, poignant, layered. I am a SUCKER for good alliteration and historical references. Anne Carson is a master at that.
This novella/poem is simultaneously a mediation on our relationship with the world… “We would think ourselves continuous with the world if we did not have moods. It is state-of-mind that discloses to us . . . that we are beings who have been thrown into something else.”
bailedOh noooo I am not smart enough for this one.
What did I read? Because honestly I read it and have no idea.
pickAbsolutely beautiful. “A novel in verse”- a story imagined about Hercules 10th labor to kill Geryon and turned it into a beautiful, sexy, tragic coming of age story.
“Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.”
Just finished reading this book again. Love it so much.
“He has not flown for years but why not be a black speck raking its way toward the crater of Icchantikas on icy possibles ... he smiles for the camera: ‘The Only Secret People Keep.‘”
Anne Carson's novel in verse about Geryon, a monster who appears and is murdered in the Tenth Labor of Herakles. Based loosely on fragments of a poem by the Greek poet Stesichorus.
In Carson's #retelling, Geryon becomes a sensitive boy in the modern world, with wings to hide, who falls in love with a caddish Herakles. A strange, beautiful story about being a misfit.
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pickHappy poetry month! This verse novel by Anne Carson is one of my favorite reads 🤓📚. Autobiography of Red is about a mythological queer boy monster named Geryon who we follow from his troubled/abusive boyhood to his first love with another young man and beyond. It's been my staff pick @strandbookstore for over a year! •• 📸: Erica Snyder || #autobiographyofred #geryon #annecarson #bookrecommendation #hardbackhoe #bookstagram #queerlit
#riotgrams Day 19 - #FavoriteSchoolRead
This was assigned during the same creative writing class that assigned Actual Air. It was by far my favorite from the class and one I‘ve read again, even after college. I don‘t keep many books once I‘ve finished reading them but this is one that will stick with me through any future moves or purges.
#riotgrams day 9 - #lgbtqpride
Sharing this book with @Dempsey for today's theme. Wasn't until I picked up The Argonauts that I realized it was the same Anne Carson. Bluets has been on my #tbr for a while as well.
Borrowed from my brother's "library." #lgbtqpride #riotgrams #day9
Loved this book! Definitely gonna get a re-read and have a copy of my own on the shelf.
This would be hard for you if you were weak but you're not weak
Happy 65th to Anne Carson! She's an author I've encountered and enjoyed in small doses, but never fully dove into her work. However, a dear friend gave me Autobiography of Red and so I'm hoping to get to it soon. (Suit game on point.)
