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This book-length lyric essay by MacArthur Grant-recipient Anne Carson, written in 29 small chapters which the poet calls "Tangos," emotionally chronicles the history of a marriage gone bad. Carson's fragmentary style is joined by excerpts from love letters and classical texts. A 2001 New York Times Notable Book.
| Size | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[B]oth entirely new and strangely familiar, like remembering a private language we thought we'd forgotten."
New Yorker (03/12/2001)
"I don't think there has been a book since Robert Lowell's LIFE STUDIES that has advanced the art of poetry quite as radically as Anne Carson is in the process of doing. Although I can understand why Carson's peers might bristle at the grandness of her ambition and squabble about her imperious disregard for even the laxest of forms, it seems to me that there is only one relevant question to be posed about her writing. What her fellow poets would do well to ask themselves is not whether what Carson is writing can or cannot be called poetry, but how has she succeeded in making it -- whatever label you give it -- so thrillingly new?"
New York Times Book Review - Daphne Merkin (09/30/2001)
"Anne Carson's adulterations of poetic form in THE NEAUTY OF THE HUSBAND are particularly well suited to her subject--adultery. This book is a tale of a marriage told through dialogue, exposition, elegiac couplets, literary quotations, and letters. Carson continues to be, as one critic has put it, 'compulsively readable,' especially in her characterization of her villain, a charismatic but chronically unfaithful husband...."
Boston Review - Barbara Fischer
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