![]() ![]() ![]() The unnamed narrator - sometimes 'I', sometimes 'the wife' - speaks of the man she calls only 'the husband', illuminating moments that are by turn sensual, erotic, painful and heartbreaking. A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 'tangos' of narrative verse, informed by the romanticism of Keats, the wisdom of the classical world and, most importatnly, by Carson's own unique sensibility. In her brilliant new book, she tells a single story. Eliot Prize, and she has received numerous North American awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. Her last two volumes, Autobiography of Red and Men in the Off Hours were both shortlisted for the T.S. ![]() Since Glass and God, which was her first full-length collection published in Britain and which was nominated for the 1998 Forward Prize, Anne Carson has published a book a year to extraordinary critical acclaim. ![]()
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