The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
160 pages
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ISBN: 9780375707575
Format: Paperback
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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.