I was reading Scarriet (a poetry blog) the other day and read about them crashing Anne Carson out of their little March Madness for poets.

Naturally, I disagreed with the result.

I have loved Anne Carson since 2001. I was browsing through books in a Books-a-Million (which once upon a time was not just crap that other bookstores only put on their bargain shelf, but actually stocked good books) on DuPont Circle back in 2001 when I stumbled on Men in the Off Hours. Just a few moments of flipping through the pages convinced me that this was something I had to purchase right then and there.

She has been one of my favorites ever since. The mixture of the arch, the classical, and the quotidian – I love it. Men in the Off Hours or Glass, Irony and God would be good places to start if you haven’t read her yet and were looking for a good intro to her style.

Postscript: Check out this Paris Review interview with Carson.