The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

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.

Author: Anne Carson
Publisher: Vintage Books Canada
Published: 02/19/2002
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780676974751
ISBN10: 0676974759
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Love & Erotica
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family