The amazing Sandie Freedman recommended to me Anne Carson's terrific novel-in-verse The Autobiography of Red, and I hereby pass on the news to anyone who bothers to keep up with this. The story is something of a queer Bildungsroman, something of a reworking of an odd classical text (Carson is, I think, a Classicist as well) by the poet Stesichoros; more to the point, the language throughout is sort of insinuatingly beautiful, but the story flows along almost effortlessly.

Sandie sez that the recommendation came via Ariela in Montreal...credit where it's due. One of my New Year's Resolutions was to Read More Poetry; if you made a similar one, here's an excellent place to start.