The Beauty of the Husband
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | Carson, Anne |
| Subject: | POETRY / Canadian |
| POETRY / General | |
| Awards: | Griffin Poetry Prize Winner |
| Publisher: | Knopf Random Vintage Canada |
| Published: | February 2002 |
| Format: | Book-hardcover |
| Pages: | 160 |
| Size: | 8.02in x 5.17in x 0.46in |
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Bookshelf comment
Such an intense poem that reads like a novel. An astounding container for a life of love and disappointment.
Additional Notes
| From The Publisher* | 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. |
| Review Quote* | "The most exciting poet writing in English today." -Michael Ondaatje "Brilliantly captured…Reading her is to experience a euphonious, mystical sort of perplexity…punctuated by what the husband himself calls ‘short blinding passages'…moments of almost unbearable poignancy." -The New York Times "Her best book.... Her poetry's form and sensibility are quite unlike anything else." -The Globe and Mail "With swift strokes depicting the illusions and disillusions of a marriage gone sour, Carson has managed to make the intellectual life hip. In her hands, a quote from Plato seems as natural as a pop reference…. Then there are the lines of sheer lyricism, lines that send us spinning back to the idea of beauty, of truth." -Miami Herald "An exquisite meditation on love and loss that reads with the emotional depth - and with the ongoing resonance - of a great novel." -Elle "I would read anything that [Anne Carson] wrote." -Susan Sontag |
| Biographical Note | Anne Carson lives in Canada. |