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The Beauty of the Husband: a Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos Anne Carson Reprint edition
The Beauty of the Husband: a Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Anne Carson
The Beauty Of The Husbandis 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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