Anna Evgenia, the daughter of Tindarios' daughter, killed me. Few contemporary poets provoke strong responses from readers and critics like Anne Carson.

The New York Times Book Review describes her work as "personal, necessary and important," while Nashriles Weekly says it is "nothing short of wonderful". Her mysterious, accessible, deep-seated personality, though universal in scope, highly transformable and always recognizable with her distinctive voice, invests contemporary fears with epic resonance and the power of Greek classics she has studied, studied and translated for decades.

Epigenia is the latest in the series of translations of the play "Eurpedes". Originally published as part of the third edition of the Complete Greek tragedies in Chicago, is published here as a separate volume for the first time.

In the astonishing Carson translation, Euripides' play - full of false identities, serious misunderstandings, and unexpected interventions by gods and men - is as fierce and modern as any contemporary drama. Carerson has accomplished one of the rarest of translations: maintaining faithfulness to the writer's words even as she expresses her unique poetic voice.

Ivignia became a wonderful achievement and an unforgettable act of poetic drama, becoming a standard translation of the play.