Antigonick
Antigone, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Oedipus's mother, attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polynices, even though he is seen as a traitor to Thebes and the law forbids even mourning for him.--Wikipedia.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
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New York :
New Directions,
2015.
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| Series: | New Directions paperbook ;
1322. |
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| Summary: | Antigone, daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta, Oedipus's mother, attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polynices, even though he is seen as a traitor to Thebes and the law forbids even mourning for him.--Wikipedia. |
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| Item Description: | "A New Directions Book." "First published clothbound by New Directions in 2012. First published as a New Directions Paperbook (NDP1322) in 2015"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 44 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780811222921 0811222926 |
| Author Notes: | Carson is perhaps besst know for Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse, which won the 1998 QSPELL Prize for Poetry. Carson recently won the 2001 Griffin Poetry Prize for Men in the Off Hours. Carson also won the T.S. Eliot poetry prize for The Beauty of the Husband, the first woman to win the award in its nine-year history. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998 and received a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship in 2000. Carson is the author of seven books. (Bowker Author Biography) |
