The Beauty of the Husband
- Authors
- Carson, Anne
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Tags
- poetry , writing
- ISBN
- 9780307554567
- Date
- 2001-02-06T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.66 MB
- Lang
- en
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. "From the Hardcover edition."