April 2013). "Short Talk on Herbology". The New Yorker. Vol.89, no.10. p.104 . Retrieved 22 April 2016.

D'Agata, John, ed. (2003). The Next American Essay. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-375-9. September 2019). "Ich bin doch kein Centrefold". The Times Literary Supplement . Retrieved 9 September 2020. Bartholomae, David; Petrosky, Tony, eds. (2011). Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers (Ninthed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Bedford/St. Martins. ISBN 9780312570910. Carson, Anne (1981). Odi et Amo Ergo Sum. Toronto: University of Toronto. [Doctoral thesis; under the name Anne Carson Giacomelli]April 2012). "No One Could Relax around Jezebel". London Review of Books. 34 (8): 32 . Retrieved 9 September 2020. Poverty Remix (Sestina)". In Büttner, Andrea (ed.). Beggars. London: Koenig Books. pp.45–60. ISBN 978-3-96098-343-9.

Allen, R. E. N.; Carr, Angela, eds. (2001). The Matrix Interviews – Moosehead Anthology Issue 8. Montreal: DC Books. ISBN 9780919688865. February 2011). "Sonnet of Exemplary Sentences From the Chapter Pertaining to the Nature of Pronouns in Emile Beneviste's Problems in General Linguistics (Paris 1966)". The Nation: 32 . Retrieved 19 July 2020. June 2018). "Short Talk on My Headache". London Review of Books. 40 (12) . Retrieved 9 September 2020. Winter 1992). "The Brainsex Paintings: Mimnermos (Translation, Essay, Interview)". Raritan. 11 (3): 1–15.Robert Currie: But you do think of the idea in every setting. If you’re swimming, you’re thinking about the idea. If you’re cooking, you’re thinking about the idea. You might not be in the idea, but you’re thinking about it. And you’re kind of working through it. McNeilly, Kevin (Spring 2003). "Gifts and Questions: An Interview with Anne Carson". Canadian Literature (176). March 2022). "Keeping Quiet: A Brief Interview with Anne Carson". The Collidescope . Retrieved 17 October 2022. Ferguson, Margaret; Salter, Mary Jo; Stallworthy, Jon, eds. (2005). The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fifthed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393979206. Answer Scars: My Roni Horn Project, An Optional Comic, by AC". In Horn, Roni; Bourgeois, Louise; Carson, Anne; Cixous, Hélène; Waters, John (eds.). Wonderwater (Alice Offshore). Göttingen: Steidl. ISBN 3-86521-005-8.

Is that all we must go on? I can tell you that there is a curiosity in the mosquito's stirring, the phenomenologists counter-stirring. Between these, an ancient dialectic, perhaps? Some air thrown out between two soft sheets? A city inside a stone? The overheard words: I'm not sure I overheard them anymore. The first time I met Anna, she was caught between these gravities. One was painting her with vermillion, the scorpion's scald. The other was an overheard conversation, a long distance call, her father's death. She showed me the blue veins mapping both her arms. As if scars.

Sullivan, Rosemary, ed. (1999). The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English. Ontario & New York: Don Mills & Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195414264. I: Thanks for agreeing to be interviewed Ms. Carson. In your book, Plainwater, I understand you have included some fragments of Mimnermos' poetry. What is the importance of understanding these, and why did you choose to open the book with this disjunctive series? Anthropology is a science of mutual surprise,” Anne Carson writes. A sweeping sense of astonishment pervades her lyric essay “ The Anthropology of Water,” in which a young, female speaker walks the Camino de Santiago. Along the course of a rugged pilgrimage, Carson’s defined formal structure enables the logical leaps that keep the speaker in a constant state of new encounter. The speaker considers dreams, folklore, the purposes and sensations of pilgrimage, and her love affair with a male companion she refers to only as “my Cid” as she seeks penance (for what, the reader doesn’t know). As her mind’s constellated meanderings undercut the journey’s unceasing forward motion, “The Anthropology of Water” erodes assumptions of linear progress. August 2002). " 'Swimming Circles in Copenhagen: A Sonnet Sequence ', 'Spring Break: Swallow Song ' ". London Review of Books. 24 (15): 33 . Retrieved 8 September 2020.

Creeley, Robert; Lehman, David, eds. (2002). The Best American Poetry 2002. New York: Scribner Poetry. ISBN 0-7432-0385-2 . Retrieved 17 July 2020. Hannah Siegel: Anne, you spoke about the women living alone in the walls and how you were really drawn to that element. As you work on pieces like Plainwater, do you find yourself drawn to certain elements more than others? Are there certain aspects of the world you create that you find yourself wanting to describe more than others? Carson, Anne; Adshead, Kay; Meeds, Bridget (1997). Wild Workshop: Three Poems. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-19107-X.

Ah well. Nobody’s body of work is entirely faultless, you know? And I’d like to emphasize that this solid four-star, in places five-star, work is the weakest Carson book I’ve read thus far. That speaks volumes about how good she is. The rest of this work takes Carson to new territory, which I think we all expect by now. Parts two and four, respectively an essay suite entitled “Small Talks” and a poem cycle called “The Life of Towns,” function as iridescent bursts of consciousness, both gorgeously written, both sharp in their insights. T