FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, AUGUST 1999
Copyright © 1998 by Anne Carson
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Harvard University Press for permission to reprint poem no. 1748 by Emily Dickinson from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press), copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the
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Carson, Anne.
Autobiography of Red / by Anne Carson. — 1st ed.
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ISBN 0-375-40133-4
1. Herakles (Greek mythology)—Poetry. 2.
Stesichoros. Geryoneis—Adaptations. 3. Epic
poetry, Greek—Adaptations. 4. Monsters—
Mythology—Poetry. I. Title.
PS3553.A7667A94 1998
811’.54—dc21 97-49472 CIP
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