Metaphor as Self-Discovery in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

In the gap between what one wants to say (or what one perceives there is to say) and what one can say (what is sayable), words provide for a collaboration and a desertion. We delight in our sensuous involvement with the materials of language, we long to join words to the world- to close the gap between ourselves and things- and we suffer from doubt and anxiety because of our inability to do so. (Lyn Hejinian The Language of Inquiry)Anne Carson is a contemporary Canadian poet, essayist and tra...