Fans of poet Anne Carson will want to be there when she brings "Red Doc" to Nicola's Books on Tuesday.

This renowned poet will release her follow-up to the acclaimed bestseller "Autobiography of Red," a stunningly original mix of poetry, drama, and narrative. To sum up what happened in the first novel, I will let Wikipedia put you up to date:

Sexually abused by his older brother, his affectionate mother too weak-willed to protect him, the monstrous young boy finds solace in photography and in a romance with a young man named Herakles. Herakles leaves his young lover at the peak of Geryon's infatuation; when Geryon comes across Herakles several years later on a trip to Argentina, Herakles' new lover Ancash forms the third point of a love triangle.

Carson brings Geryon, now called "G," into manhood and the modern age. He and his lover, a war veteran, and Ida, an artist, cross lands of glacial ice to idyllic green pastures. Some that contain a psychiatric clinic to the house where G's mother must face her death.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013. 7 p.m. Free. Nicola's Books is in the Westgate Shopping Center at 2513 Jackson Road, Ann Arbor. 734-662-0600.