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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. 2nd Printing. Octavo, publisher's black cloth over red cloth, spine stamped in silver, original illustrated dust jacket.
Inscribed second printing of Nobel Prize-winning poet, translator, and classicist Anne Carson’s verse novel. A highly anticipated sequel to Autobiography of Red (1998), considered by many her masterpiece, this genre defying work loosely draws upon extant fragments of the ancient Greek poet Stesichoros's Geryoneis, a 1300 line poem recounting the myth of Herakles’ tenth labor, in which he slays the three-bodied monster Geryon. Rejecting conventional formatting in Carson’s classic style, with narrow, newspaper-style two-inch columns of text, her oblique adaptation follows the journey of G, a winged man, and his former lover Sad (short for "Sad But Great"), an avatar for Herakles suffering from PTSD after returning from war. Dust jacket designed by Carol Devine Carson (no relation) featuring a photo by Carson. Inscribed to title page: "For Scott / Respectfully / AC." Second printing, issued the same month as the first. Fine in unclipped dust jacket. Item #13680
$500.00