num_pages: 176
description: Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure.In Men in the Off Hours , Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon, Carson sets up startling Lazarus among video paraphernalia, Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war, Edward Hopper paintings illuminated by St. Augustine. And in a final prose poem, she meditates movingly on the recent death of her mother. With its quiet, acute spirituality and its fearless wit and sensuality, Men in the Off Hours shows us a fiercely individual poet at her best.
language: English
title: Men in the Off Hours
titlecomplete: Men in the Off Hours
genres: Classics, Literary Criticism, Female Authors, Literature, Contemporary, Mythology, Essays, Poetry, Nonfiction, Canada
ratings_count: 1701
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Vintage