The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

Author(s): Anne Carson

Poetry

The Beauty Of The Husband""is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end. This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice-29 "tangos" of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects-love-and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.


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"An exquisite meditation on love and loss that reads with the emotional depth-and with the ongoing resonance-of a great novel."-"Elle ""[An] eerie, elliptical, very beautiful elegy for a failed marriage.... Her verse pierces the mind with a laserlike light."-"The New York Times ""Her best book.... Her poetry's form and sensibility are quite unlike anything else."-"The Globe & Mail "(Toronto)

General Fields

  • : 9780375707575
  • : Random House USA Inc
  • : Random House Inc
  • : 0.181
  • : February 2002
  • : 204mm X 132mm X 14mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Anne Carson
  • : Paperback / softback
  • : 811.54
  • : 160