The Beauty of the Husband

Anne Carson · 2001 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

A fictional essay in twenty-nine tangos, tracing a marriage from first meeting to its end through the husband's repeated infidelities and the wife's inability to stop seeing his beauty. Keats supplies the epigraphs and the argument about truth and beauty. A Canadian poet filed here with Modern / American, and one of the few verse books of the decade that reads as a continuous story.

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