Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson

Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson

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.

Anne Carson is a Montreal-based poet, essayist, and classics researcher. The Dalkey Archive has released her first work, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay (Princeton). Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Knopf), her most recent book, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.

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ISBN 13	9780375707568
ISBN 10	0375707565
Title	Men in the Off Hours
Author	Anne Carson
Series	Vintage Contemporaries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2001-02-13
Number of pages	176
Prizes	Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) 2000, Short-listed for L.A. Times Book Prize (Poetry) 2000
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