People who don't read poetry read Anne Carson.--Deborah Landau

Carson is nothing less than brilliant--unfalteringly sharp indiction, audacious, and judicious in taking liberties.-- "Publishers Weekly"

Reading Anne Carson is to experience aeuphonious, mystical sort of perplexity.--Richard Bernstein "The New York Times"

She reaches past the contemporary moment to craft her unique and universal voice, one that is both as ancient as Sappho and intimidatingly modern.-- "Washington Square News"

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 "Public Books"

Her poetry is light, swift, and beautiful.-- "The New Yorker" (6/25/2012 12:00:00 AM)

The reader, the listener is provoked and challenged to the utmost.-- "The Times Literary Supplement"

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.

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.-- "The Guardian"

Carson's poetry convinces. Carson's work is irrepressibly modern and provoking.-- "The Oxonian Review"

Stone's illustrations and the hand-lettered text make Antigonick a beautiful object.-- "livemint.com & The Wall Street Journal"

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.-- "Critical Mob" (6/8/2012 12:00:00 AM)

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.-- "Full Stop"

In Carson's hands, this small, familiar Greek volume takes on a thunderously fresh rhythm, a satisfying blend of poetry and prose.-- "KGB Bar Lit Magazine"

Her poetry at it's best, like Antigone's character, is a thrilling combination of hot-blooded instinct and dispassionate resolve.-- "National Post"

The experiment's a fascinating one, and this interesting, risk-taking book is unignorable.-- "The Independent"

Antigonick plays extensively with the conventions of narrative form, translation, and the physical presentation of literature.-- "The Rumpus"

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.-- "New Statesman"

Antigonick has arrived at the right cultural moment.-- "The New Inquiry"

Carson's Antigonick is wildly unorthodox. But it's also captivating, in a brash, pop culture-inflected way.-- "Thestar.com"