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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 fa...

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure.In Men in the Off Hours, Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon, Carson sets...

The central heart of the book is an extended mediation on the loss of Anne's husband - poems both deeply personal and universal. They are held by two other sections which explore her relationship with and place within the natural world, particularly drawing on the theme of regeneration after disaster. Anne M Carson is a Melbourne writer and visual artist. Her poetry has been published both in the USA and widely in Australia including The Best ...

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One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memory." --The Economist Simone Weil described "decreation" as "undoing the creature in us" -- an undoing of self. In her first collection in five years, Anne Carson explores this idea with characteristic brilliance and a tantalizing range of reference, moving from Aphrodite to Antonioni, Demosthenes to Annie Dillard, Telemachos to Trotsky, and writin...

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Anne Carson was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honours include the T.S. Eliot Prize, a Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Prize, on two occasions, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.

Este libro inclasificable cuenta la historia de un matrimonio en torno a la idea de Keats «beauty is truth», belleza es verdad.La belleza del marido , el primer libro que se publica en España de la canadiense Anne Carson, es una de las más originales y turbadoras manifestaciones de la poesía de nuestros días. Subtitulado «un ensayo narrativo en 29 tangos», este libro inclasificable cuenta la historia de un matrimonio en torno a la idea de Keat...

New translation of the work of Sappho, together with the original Greek.