"Her poetry at it's best, like Antigone's character, is a thrilling combination of hot-blooded instinct and dispassionate resolve."
"This is where Carson's best work is staged: in the uncanny gateway between the temporal and the timeless; in the nick between the world of powerboats and the sublime, terrifying realm of the dead and the still lively gods."
"Her poetry is light, swift, and beautiful."
"A beautiful, bewildering book, wondrous and a bit scary to behold, that gives a reader much to think about without making it clear how she should feel."
"People who don’t read poetry read Anne Carson."
"The experiment's a fascinating one, and this interesting, risk-taking book is unignorable."
"Ms. Carson does more than just update the language and quicken the pacing–she rewrites the play, mines its subtleties, its absurdity and its strangely comic timing and manages to produce a unique text out of a story that goes back much further than the fifth century when Sophocles wrote his version."
"It is a cry of grief posed in question form, emphatic, handwritten, excessive and abbreviated and, in this sense, a measured scream that gives us some sense of who or what lives on when it is all too late."
Public Books - Judith Butler
"Antigonick is as much a re-telling as it is a testament to the importance of Antigone in Western art, of re-tellings, and of refiguring narrative."
"Carson's poetry convinces. Carson's work is irrepressibly modern and provoking."
"Carson's Antigonick is wildly unorthodox. But it's also captivating, in a brash, pop culture-inflected way."
"Antigonick has arrived at the right cultural moment."
"She is one of the few writers writing in English that I would read anything she wrote."
"Antigonick plays extensively with the conventions of narrative form, translation, and the physical presentation of literature."
"Stone's illustrations and the hand-lettered text make Antigonick a beautiful object."
livemint.com & The Wall Street Journal
"In Carson's hands, this small, familiar Greek volume takes on a thunderously fresh rhythm, a satisfying blend of poetry and prose."
"She reaches past the contemporary moment to craft her unique and universal voice, one that is both as ancient as Sappho and intimidatingly modern."
"Her poetry is expressionistic (you see this in Antigonick ), shot through with a spiritual turbulence and an almost violent sensitivity to experience, and the barbed edges of her lines can send shocks through you."
"Reading Anne Carson is to experience aeuphonious, mystical sort of perplexity."
The New York Times - Richard Bernstein
[Antigonick] is both riveting and humorous. Bianca Stone's illustrations are immediate and visceral, and Robert Currie's overall book design has elegance and strength.
It is a cry of grief posed in question form, emphatic, handwritten, excessive and abbreviated and, in this sense, a measured scream that gives us some sense of who or what lives on when it is all too late.— Judith Butler
Reading Anne Carson is to experience aeuphonious, mystical sort of perplexity.— Richard Bernstein
