Anne Carson's The Autobiography of Red

Of Anne Carson's The Autobiography of Red, Amazon.com says, "The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.  Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is."

I have just started a re-read of this fantastic, poetic, novella.  I remember the first time I read it, I was profoundly moved by the fact that Carson had taken the time to write about gay love.  I was young.  I didn't have much worldly experience.  I was moved and affected in ways I can't even explain.  Now, I've grown and experienced so much, but I want to make sure that I pay homage to those that have gone before me and that those who come after me know what's out there and what we've all been through.

And to those of you out there who think you have nothing to say, write.  Geryon's story is an example to us all.  Thank you, Anne Carson, for showing us love through words.