76. poet of heartbreak

Over the years Ms. Carson, whose work deals with extremes of passion and eroticism and who creates verse and prose embedded with references to classical scholarship, has acquired a cult following. … Often called a „poet of heartbreak,“ her cultural references span the ages and range from scholarly essays on, for example, the Greek concept of women as unclean, to poetic musings on Akhmatova, Tolstoy and Catherine Deneuve in her collection „Men in the Off Hours.“ / Dinitia Smith, NYT *) 27.3.04