Notes from Source: Jim Fleming: Our final interview in Poems Old and New is with a writer who’s constantly rearranging poetry’s furniture. Anne Carson has written short talks, verse novels, essays as tangos, prose poems, illustrated poetry collections, and more. Carson is also a classic scholar, who’s translated or re-translated Sappho, Euripides, Sophocles, and other ancient writers. In book after book, Carson forges new poetic forms. I asked her about the shapes poems can take. Anne Carson: For the ancients form was, they didn’t have a word for that really. They had genres but genres arose out of occasions.

Further Notes: To the Best of Our Knowledge: Poems Old and New