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Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides all wrote surviving plays treating Electra and Orestes' avenging the slaying of Agamemnon. Anne Carson translated the Sophocles for that black Oxford series a few years ago, and has recently done E's Orestes and A's Agamemnon and sent all three of them off for readings under the title "The Oresteia"! I guess she won't be able to publish them together, unless Oxford wants to--Orestes wasn't in Grief Lessons. She's also done some freaky dance-accompanied 'sonnets' available on youtube, examples of her to me less attractive Steinian vein.

Googling her turned up lots of recent poems in magazines and journals, too. Why aren't there updated online bibliographies for active writers? Seems like one of those things the internet's designed for, and something maybe academia, rather than random fans, should be taking on.

Be tempted to do Carson's myself if I'm kept here much longer with admin problems (I've been coded as a graduate student rather than an undergrad, kicking me out of the one class I still need in order to graduate, and also cutting me off from my undergraduate email, and the one person who has the authority to change things back has been at lunch for c. 4 hours).