The Beauty Of The Husband is 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.
This 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 ero...
The Beauty Of The Husband is 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.
This 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.
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Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980 to 1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.
Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator and professor of Classics. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University, the University of Michigan, and at Princeton University from 1980 to 1987. She was a 1998 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also won a Lannan Literary Award.
Carson (with background in classical languages, comparative literature, anthropology, history, and commercial art) blends ideas and themes from many fields in her writing. She frequently references, modernizes, and translates Ancient Greek literature. She has published eighteen books as of 2013, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, criticism, translation, dramatic dialogue, fiction, and non-fiction. She is an internationally acclaimed writer. Her books include Antigonick, Nox, Decreation, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry; Economy of the Unlost; Autobiography of Red, shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry, and Glass, Irony and God, shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Carson is also a classics scholar, the translator of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, and the author of Eros the Bittersweet. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Her latest book, Red Doc>, was shortlisted for the 2013 T.S. Elliot Prize.
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else… Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being. (查看原文)
Between Main Door and Kindergarten ran a corridor. To Geryon it was
a hundred thousand miles
of thunder tunnels and indoor neon sky slammed open by giants. (查看原文)
Love is risk, hold beauty. 有点词穷，卡森的好是很显而易见的，每一章都在流光溢彩就好像丝毫不费力气。很俏皮。感叹于她对各种感官感受的杂糅和敏锐，还有对这些奇迹一样的通感描写的掌控程度。文字带着离心力快速冲刷过去，感情也铺天盖地地罩过来。我每次都对她描写两个人静止之间的气息把控印象深刻，真的做到了短暂的一瞬却变成永恒。
偏偏就在最（不）完美的时机读它。"our moral history are they not almost as neat as mathematical / propositions except written on water -", here lies one whose name was writ in water. 写得面目全非，像我正在看的。
“ Beauty is truth, truth beauty,–that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. ”——济慈 哈罗德·布鲁姆称赞安妮·卡森是在世最伟大的天才，足以与约翰·阿什贝利和英国诗人杰弗里·希尔的作品相比。 这种评价是否有过誉的成分，至少从这两部中译而言，还...
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1 有用 叶生 2025-03-31 14:17:01 加拿大
Love is risk, hold beauty. 有点词穷，卡森的好是很显而易见的，每一章都在流光溢彩就好像丝毫不费力气。很俏皮。感叹于她对各种感官感受的杂糅和敏锐，还有对这些奇迹一样的通感描写的掌控程度。文字带着离心力快速冲刷过去，感情也铺天盖地地罩过来。我每次都对她描写两个人静止之间的气息把控印象深刻，真的做到了短暂的一瞬却变成永恒。
0 有用 Olive 2021-03-01 09:45:05
让我想起 去年读的Heart Berries 甚至Fiona apple去年的那张专辑 Anne Carson把握住了爱中的 混乱和进程 “爱里面总有一些疯狂，但是疯狂中也总有理由”
1 有用 Loro 2025-03-29 21:03:08 北京
偏偏就在最（不）完美的时机读它。"our moral history are they not almost as neat as mathematical / propositions except written on water -", here lies one whose name was writ in water. 写得面目全非，像我正在看的。
0 有用 ichbinluz 2018-04-07 11:24:45
我是真不懂诗歌。古典学周边。因为Anne Carson。
0 有用 beluga 2023-09-22 23:55:37 上海
啊，刺。卡森还是太好的