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Anne Carson has written a beautiful book of poems/tangoes that somehow tell the story of a marriage without actually . The storyteller in the The Beauty of the Husband is a woman who may or may not be Anne Carson, recollecting a failing marriage with a beating mind.

Anne Carson has written a beautiful book of poems/tangoes that somehow tell the story of a marriage without actually telling a story. We have fully realized moments, conversations (Carson writes amazing poetic conversations, here and in her other works), events - without all the connections in between. Like other great stylists - Proust for example, her form of telling a story is peerless. Because after you have grasped the story why go back except to relish in style?

The Beauty of the Husband is a 2001 collection of poetry by Canadian poet, professor of Classics, translator and essayist Anne Carson. It is her seventh book. It won three major poetry awards: the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the.

The Beauty of the Husband is a 2001 collection of poetry by Canadian poet, professor of Classics, translator and essayist Anne Carson. Eliot Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos includes narrative verse that describes erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a doomed marriage

Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. The unnamed narrator - sometimes 'I', sometimes 'the wife' - speaks of the man she calls only 'the husband', illuminating moments that are by turn sensual, erotic, painful and heartbreaking.

Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red and Men in the Off Hours were both shortlisted for the . Eliot Prize, and she has received numerous North American awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.

ANNE CARSON was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. People Who Read The Beauty of the Husband Also Read. Inspired by Your Browsing History. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenhei. ore about Anne Carson. The most exciting poet writing in English today. Brilliantly capture. eading her is to experience a euphonious, mystical sort of perplexit. unctuated by what the husband himself calls ‘short blinding passages. oments of almost unbearable poignancy.

Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects–love–and make it. .

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. Inanity is as much a part of The Beauty of the Husband as truth or beauty: In an interview in the March/April 2001 Poets and Writers, Carson states that she liked "the absolute inanity of calling anything a fictional essay. It is that inanity-the cheatings and errors in this work, as opposed to its interest in truth and untruth-that makes it second-rate.

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos. 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. The Albertine Workout. Books related to The Beauty of the Husband. Complete Works of Sappho (Delphi Classics).

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Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim

Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. In her brilliant new book, she tells a single story.

You need to read this book more than once to start to get an inkling of what Anne Carson wants you to understand. She uses the word 'tangos' to describe each of the sections which evokes the image of a couple locked in a complex dance, but may also refer to the mix of fluid and staccato rhythms of the words on the page.