Carson is nothing less than brilliant-unfalteringly sharp indiction, audacious, and judicious in taking liberties. -- Publishers Weekly
Reading Anne Carson is to experience aeuphonious, mystical sort of perplexity. -- Richard Bernstein - The New York Times
She reaches past the contemporary moment to craft her unique and universal voice, one that is both as ancient as Sappho and intimidatingly modern. -- Washington Square News
People who don't read poetry read Anne Carson. -- Deborah Landau
She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote. -- Susan Sontag
It is a cry of grief posed in question form, emphatic, handwritten, excessive and abbreviated and, in this sense, a measured scream that gives us some sense of who or what lives on when it is all too late. -- Judith Butler - Public Books
Her poetry is light, swift, and beautiful. -- The New Yorker
The reader, the listener is provoked and challenged to the utmost. -- The Times Literary Supplement
A beautiful, bewildering book, wondrous and a bit scary to behold, that gives a reader much to think about without making it clear how she should feel.
-- Slate
Ms. Carson does more than just update the language and quicken the pacing-she rewrites the play, mines its subtleties, its absurdity and its strangely comic timing and manages to produce a unique text out of a story that goes back much further than the fifth century when Sophocles wrote his version. -- The Guardian
Carson's poetry convinces. Carson's work is irrepressibly modern and provoking. -- The Oxonian Review
Stone's illustrations and the hand-lettered text make
Antigonick a beautiful object. -- livemint.com & The Wall Street Journal
Antigonick is as much a re-telling as it is a testament to the importance of
Antigone in Western art, of re-tellings, and of refiguring narrative. -- Critical Mob
Her poetry is expressionistic (you see this in
Antigonick), shot through with a spiritual turbulence and an almost violent sensitivity to experience, and the barbed edges of her lines can send shocks through you. -- Full Stop
In Carson's hands, this small, familiar Greek volume takes on a thunderously fresh rhythm, a satisfying blend of poetry and prose. -- KGB Bar Lit Magazine
Her poetry at it's best, like Antigone's character, is a thrilling combination of hot-blooded instinct and dispassionate resolve. -- National Post
The experiment's a fascinating one, and this interesting, risk-taking book is unignorable. -- The Independent
Antigonick plays extensively with the conventions of narrative form, translation, and the physical presentation of literature. -- The Rumpus
This is where Carson's best work is staged: in the uncanny gateway between the temporal and the timeless; in the nick between the world of powerboats and the sublime, terrifying realm of the dead and the still lively gods. -- New Statesman
Antigonick has arrived at the right cultural moment. -- The New Inquiry
Carson's
Antigonick is wildly unorthodox. But it's also captivating, in a brash, pop culture-inflected way. -- Thestar.com
