Swimming the Questions
Further and "final" reflections from Brent Raycroft on Anne Carson's Wrong Norma and Emily Wilson's "Fox and Hedgehog."
By ‘politics in Wrong Norma’ I mean the kind of politics that Emily Wilson in “Fox and Hedgehog” finds lacking in Anne Carson’s first book:
She has much to say about the intricacies of “Sappho’s mind,” but nothing about her complicated status as an aristocrat in an era of political turbulence and revolution….
Wilson later observes that the author has bro…
