Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
A book about romantic love, Eros the Bittersweet is Anne Carson’s exploration of the concept of “eros” in both classical philosophy and literature. Beginning with, “It was Sappho who first called eros ‘bittersweet.’ No one who has been in love disputes her,” Carson examines her subject from numerous points of view, creating a lyrical meditation in the tradition of William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All and William H. Gass’s On Being Blue.
Epigrammatic, witty, ironic, and endlessly entertaining, Eros is an utterly original book.
The Craft 
Being Alive 
Fresh Out of Dragonflies 
Selected Poetry 
Dog Poems 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Gen 
Strong in the Rain 
Hansel and Gretel 
Ten Poems from Russia 
States of Happiness 
Insistence 
The Barbarians' Return 
Swansea Automatic 
Counting Backwards 
Forgive the Language