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This is Carson's most welcoming and intimate work to date. The tango provides inspiration for precise, sultry, graceful poems depicting a marriage in dissolution. They convey eroticism and possessiveness, competition and resentment. This "fictional essay" on marriage and adultery cuts more deeply than any plain-spoken confession. Carson is a professor of classics at McGill University. Her previous books of poetry have been nominated for the Governor General's Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award.
About this Author
Anne Carson lives in Canada.
Reviews
"The most exciting poet writing in English today." --Michael Ondaatje
"Brilliantly captured...Reading her is to experience a euphonious, mystical sort of perplexity...punctuated by what the husband himself calls 'short blinding passages'...moments of almost unbearable poignancy." --The New York Times
"Her best book.... Her poetry's form and sensibility are quite unlike anything else." --The Globe and Mail
"With swift strokes depicting the illusions and disillusions of a marriage gone sour, Carson has managed to make the intellectual life hip. In her hands, a quote from Plato seems as natural as a pop reference.... Then there are the lines of sheer lyricism, lines that send us spinning back to the idea of beauty, of truth." --Miami Herald
"An exquisite meditation on love and loss that reads with the emotional depth -- and with the ongoing resonance -- of a great novel." --Elle
"I would read anything that [Anne Carson] wrote." --Susan Sontag
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