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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 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.
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The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- The Beauty of the Husband
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Anne Carson
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Ltd
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN13
- 9780676974751
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Poetry, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Canada, Canadian Literature
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- 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.