Men In The Off Hours
by Anne Carson
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Description
Following her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red (‘a spellbinding achievement’ - Susan Sontag): a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson’s intoxicating mixture of opposites - the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.
In Men in the Off Hours, Carson re-invents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson and Audubon. She views the writings of Sappho, St Augustine and Catullus through a modern lens. She sets up startling juxtapositions (Lazarus among video paraphernalia; Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war). And, in a final prose poem, she meditates on the recent death of her mother.
With its quiet, acute spirituality, its fearless wit and sensuality, and its joyful understanding that ‘the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection’, Men in the Off Hours is profound, provocative and unforgettable.
Details
Men In The Off Hours
by Anne Carson
ISBN
9780224061049
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Binding
Paperback
Publication date
Nov. 9, 2000
Dimensions
21.3cm x 14.3cm x 1.0cm