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Unruly corpses

by Irene Hsiao

Antigonick, Anne Carson's 2012 translation of Sophokles's Antigone, is both heavy and light, with terse language hand-lettered in black and red caps, interleaved with illustrations by Bianca Stone on vellum. You see each image twice: blurred with the words on the next page peeping through like a palimpsest"then faded and reversed against a white page, […] The post Unruly corpses appeared first on Chicago Reader.

SOURCE: chicagoreader.com at 1:16pm on June 12, 2024