Red

Anne Carson

The red-winged boy Geryon is undyingly in love with Heracles, whom the youth cannot resist. At the height of their erotic relationship, Heracles drops Geryon and plunges him into the deepest sorrow. But then Geryon magically travels from ancient times to the present day – and finds solace in photography.

The poet Anne Carson has performed the most riotous and strangest that contemporary literature has to offer. She places Homer in a particle accelerator to sketch a mirror image of our present time in the fragmentation of old meanings. Red is unheard of erotic and as evil as the Greek myths.