Title: The Beauty of the Husband
Subtitle: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
First published: 2001
Description: 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.From the Hardcover edition.
Subjects: Married people, Poetry, Fiction, Marriage, Adultery, Poetry (poetic works by one author), New York Times reviewed
People: John Keats
LC classification: PS3553.A7667 B43 2001