Poem: ‘On Discovering at Dinner that Adam Zagajewski and I Share a Birthday’ 
Anne Carson
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Anne Carson won the T.S. Eliot Prize for The Beauty of the Husband. Her other books include Autobiography of Red, Economy of the Unlost, about Paul Celan and Simonides, and If Not, Winter, a complete translation of the Sappho fragments.