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Men in the Off Hours

Men in the Off Hours

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 0375707565
ISBN13: 9780375707568
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Feb 13 2001
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Awards: L.A. Times Book Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award
Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure.

In Men in the Off Hours, Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon, Carson sets up startling juxtapositions: Lazarus among video paraphernalia, Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war, Edward Hopper paintings illuminated by St. Augustine. And in a final prose poem, she meditates movingly on the recent death of her mother. With its quiet, acute spirituality and its fearless wit and sensuality, Men in the Off Hours shows us a fiercely individual poet at her best.

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