{"product_id":"men-in-the-off-hours-9780375408038","title":"Men in the Off Hours","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMen in the Off Hours\u003c\/strong\u003e by Carson, Anne. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780375408038.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing her widely acclaimed Autobiography of Red (\"A spellbinding achievement\" --Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carsons signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.\n\nIn Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents 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.\n\nWith 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 shows us \"the most exciting poet writing in English today\" (Michael Ondaatje) at her best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949996699701,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375408037","price":90.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375408038_fd19af3c-ed12-4344-a0cb-c28c19c6cd4a.jpg?v=1781310259","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/men-in-the-off-hours-9780375408038","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}