The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

About this book

The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keatss 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 voice29 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 subjectsloveand make it this powerful this fresh this devastating.