Anne Carson: Performing Antigonick

Canadian Anne Carson has been heralded as one of the most important contemporary poets writing in English. In this video she performs ’Antigonick’, which is her version of Sophocles’ ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone. Carson performs with eight Scandinavian colleagues and fans. Anne Carson (b. 1950) is regarded as one of the most important writers in English. The American literary critic Harold Bloom has praised Carson for her innovative work. Besides being a poet and a writer, Carson is an essayist, transl