About the Author

Anne Carson is a professor of classics as well as a poet, essayist, and translator. Lanfranco Quadrio is a painter and engraver who lives and works in Palermo, Italy.

Reviews

"Gorgeously produced. . . . The ideas explored here . . . are about words and images having a life of their own, beyond the readily explicable, and the attempts of writers, translators, and artists to grasp and so prolong that life."-- "Times Literary Supplement"