{"product_id":"the-beauty-of-the-husband-isbn-9780375707575","title":"The Beauty of the Husband","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Beauty Of The Husband \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.“An exquisite meditation on love and loss that reads with the emotional depth–and with the ongoing resonance–of a great novel.”–\u003ci\u003eElle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“[An] eerie, elliptical, very beautiful elegy for a failed marriage.... Her verse pierces the mind with a laserlike light.”–\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Her best book.... Her poetry’s form and sensibility are quite unlike anything else.”–\u003ci\u003eThe Globe \u0026amp; Mail \u003c\/i\u003e(Toronto)ANNE CARSON was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.II. BUT A DEDICATION IS ONLY FELICITOUS IF PERFORMED BEFORE WITNESSES--IT IS AN ESSENTIALLY PUBLIC SURRENDER LIKE THAT OF STANDARDS OF BATTLE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou know I was married years ago and when he left my husband took my notebooks.\u003cbr\u003eWirebound notebooks.\u003cbr\u003eYou know that cool sly verb write. He liked writing, disliked having to start\u003cbr\u003eeach thought himself.\u003cbr\u003eUsed my starts to various ends, for example in a pocket I found a letter he'd begun\u003cbr\u003e(to his mistress at that time)\u003cbr\u003econtaining a phrase I had copied from Homer: 'entropalizomenh is how Homer says\u003cbr\u003eAndromache went\u003cbr\u003eafter she parted from Hektor--\"often turning to look back\"\u003cbr\u003eshe went\u003cbr\u003edown from Troy's tower and through stone streets to her loyal husband's\u003cbr\u003ehouse and there\u003cbr\u003ewith her women raised a lament for a living man in his own halls.\u003cbr\u003eLoyal to nothing\u003cbr\u003emy husband. So why did I love him from early girlhood to late middle age\u003cbr\u003eand the divorce decree came in the mail?\u003cbr\u003eBeauty. No great secret. Not ashamed to say I loved him for his beauty.\u003cbr\u003eAs I would again\u003cbr\u003eif he came near. Beauty convinces. You know beauty makes sex possible.\u003cbr\u003eBeauty makes sex sex.\u003cbr\u003eYou if anyone grasp this--hush, let's pass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eto natural situations.\u003cbr\u003eOther species, which are not poisonous, often have colorations and patterns\u003cbr\u003esimilar to poisonous species.\u003cbr\u003eThis imitation of a poisonous by a nonpoisonous species is called mimicry.\u003cbr\u003eMy husband was no mimic.\u003cbr\u003eYou will mention of course the war games. I complained to you often enough\u003cbr\u003ewhen they were here all night\u003cbr\u003ewith the boards spread out and rugs and little lamps and cigarettes like Napoleon's\u003cbr\u003etent I suppose,\u003cbr\u003ewho could sleep? All in all my husband was a man who knew more\u003cbr\u003eabout the Battle of Borodino\u003cbr\u003ethan he did about his own wife's body, much more! Tensions poured up the walls\u003cbr\u003eand along the ceiling,\u003cbr\u003esometimes they played Friday night till Monday morning straight through, he\u003cbr\u003eand his pale wrathful friends.\u003cbr\u003eThey sweated badly. They ate meats of the countries in play.\u003cbr\u003eJealousy\u003cbr\u003eformed no small part of my relationship to the Battle of Borodino.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI hate it.\u003cbr\u003eDo you.\u003cbr\u003eWhy play all night.\u003cbr\u003eThe time is real.\u003cbr\u003eIt's a game.\u003cbr\u003eIt's a real game.\u003cbr\u003eIs that a quote.\u003cbr\u003eCome here.\u003cbr\u003eNo.\u003cbr\u003eI need to touch you.\u003cbr\u003eNo.\u003cbr\u003eYes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat night we made love \"the real way\" which we had not yet attempted\u003cbr\u003ealthough married six months.\u003cbr\u003eBig mystery. No one knew where to put their leg and to this day I'm not sure\u003cbr\u003ewe got it right.\u003cbr\u003eHe seemed happy. You're like Venice he said beautifully.\u003cbr\u003eEarly next day\u003cbr\u003eI wrote a short talk (\"On Defloration\") which he stole and had published\u003cbr\u003ein a small quarterly magazine.\u003cbr\u003eOverall this was a characteristic interaction between us.\u003cbr\u003eOr should I say ideal.\u003cbr\u003eNeither of us had ever seen Venice.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304275890405,"sku":"NP9780375707575","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375707575.jpg?v=1767738294","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-beauty-of-the-husband-isbn-9780375707575","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}