Canadian poet Anne Carson is a recluse, not given to public contact with the outside world. So you have to piece together her life from other sources: “it’s known that she teaches classics at McGill University; that she won the 1996 Lannan Award, the 1997 Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998, among others, and that earlier this year, she received the McArthur Foundation ‘Genius’ Award worth $500,000 (U.S.). Michael Ondaatje says she is ‘the most exciting poet writing in English today’. Susan Sontag puts her in a ‘less-than-fingers-on-one-hand group of writers’.” – The Globe and Mail (Canada)