Men In The Off Hours

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Books
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15.00
book_author_name: 
Anne Carson
book_type: 
Paperback
publisher: 
Vintage Publishing
published_date: 
09/11/2000
isbn: 
9780224061049
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Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Poetry > Individual poets
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Anne Carson|Paperback|Vintage Publishing|09/11/2000
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9780224061049
Book 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.

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