About this title: A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 "tangos" of narrative verse, informed by the poet's own sensibility. This is a work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and power.
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Description: Good. 0375408045 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. 0375408045 Ex-library book with stickers and stampings. Overall nice condition book with clean text and good binding unless otherwise noted. Most items ship within 24 hours. read more
Description: Good in Good jacket. Text has suffered moisture damage, not molded however the pages are wrippled throughout, DJ wrippled as well, water stain on lower fore-edge, still a good reading copy, square. read more
Edition: Fourth Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780375408045ISBN:0375408045
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. DJ has marks, edgewear, tiny tears-Cover has bumping, marks, edgewear-Marks on edge-Bumped pgs-Few marks on pgs. read more
Edition: 4th Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780375707575ISBN:0375707573
Description: Fine. This 6 x 9 softcover has 145 pages. an essay on Keat's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780375707575ISBN:0375707573
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2002-02-01
ISBN-13:9780375707575ISBN:0375707573
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780375707575. read more
Description: Fine. 0375408045 Like New-almost perfect. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Pages sharp and clean. No marks or highlighting in text. This book has NOT been marked as a remainder by the publisher. Price on dust jacket is intact and has NOT been clipped. Accurate Detailed Descriptions with Fast Shipping and Robust Packaging. BRN106H. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780375408045ISBN:0375408045
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Signed and Dated By Author. Hard Cover. First American Edition. Signed and Dated By Author. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. FINE/ FINE. ISBN: 0-375-40804-5. This is an "as new", unread copy of the first edition, which has been signed and Dated: Respectfully ac, APRIL 11th, 2001. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, NY
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780375408045ISBN:0375408045
Description: Signed by Author. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 147 pages. As New in As New Dust Jacket. The author's account on subject. One of the greatest literary texts of the new century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Presents one of the most stunningly beautiful literary works on the relation between beauty and truth. Written as a poetic sequence, it is an essayistic and novelistic meditation/story inspired by John Keats' ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780375707575ISBN:0375707573
Description: Very Good. Pages clean with no notes/highlights/underlines, covers in good shape with little to no wear or creasing, Fourth Printing 2002 (1M). read more
Description: Good. Used copy-Because of our high volume, we can not accurately describe each book, so we list the MINIMUM condition you can expect; most are better than the condition listed. read more
"This book broke my heart more than a little...and I liked it. Anne Carson is such a distinctive voice in literature--utterly unique and ultra-academic. Sometimes I pull her books down from the shelf to marvel (and to make my head spin, in a good way). Although she likes to pepper her work with mythological references, there's very little of that in this book. Word on the street is that it's about her ex-husband, although Canadian Anne mostly keeps mum about her personal life. A powerful, unflinching read. Bravo."
"I overlooked one thing. That the beautiful when I encountered it would turn out to be prior-- inside my own heart, already eaten. Not out there with purposiveness, with temple, with God. Inside. He was already me. Condition of me.
This reminds me of what Vanessa Place says in Notes On Conceptualisms (I think that's where she says it) about allegory: "All myth is an enriched pattern,/a two-faced proposition,/allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life" (33).
..."cabbages lures lambs broom sex milk money!/These kill death" (42).
"To tell a story by not telling it--/dear shadow, I wrote this slowly" (145)."
"8. The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson Michael Symmons wrote in a Guardian review: "Canadian poet Anne Carson's tracing of a single love affair through to the breakdown of a marriage has won her many admirers. This book is an amazing balancing act - classical and colloquial, surreal but rooted in telling everyday details." Concur."
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