08-10-2026 20:36 via nytimes.com

Why Anne Carson, the New Nobel Laureate, Is the Easiest Difficult Poet

Carson has mind-boggling range and formal audacity, our poetry columnist writes, but however much she toys with obscurity she remains too hilarious to be intimidating.
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