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Men in the Off Hours

By Anne , Carson

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
ISBN
0375707565, 9780307557872, 9780375707568, 9780676973563, 0676973566
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1686427 bytes)
Edition
1st Vintage contemporaries ed
Pages
vi, 166 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Canadian (English) -- 20th century;Canadian poetryCanadian (English)--20th century;American poetry--Canadian poetry--20th century;Poets

Description

Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red ("A spellbinding achievement" --Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse. In Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon. She views the writings of Sappho, St. Augustine, and Catullus through a modern lens. She sets up startling juxtapositions (Lazarus among video paraphernalia; Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war). And in a final prose poem, she meditates on the recent death of her mother. With its quiet, acute spirituality, its fearless wit and sensuality, and its joyful understanding that "the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection," Men in the Off Hours shows us "the most exciting poet writing in English today" (Michael Ondaatje) at her best. From the Hardcover edition.

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