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
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/19/2002
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.18w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780375707575