The Beauty of the Husband Shifting the SilenceAnne Carson 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 voice 29 tangos of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long time marriage that
Writing in dialogue with emancipatory political movements
In Don’t Let Them See Me Like This
The Switch contains three books:
at last with thy softer light/That takes the bite from winter weather/And weaves the random cloth of life together/And drives away the long black night
vijfendertig jaar dus
Whether alone or in relationship
musical and tender’ Ruth Padel
in spite of her most concentrated attention
en deinzen er niet voor terug stelling te nemen
and with glosses by William Rowe and Helen Dimos)
Combining a beautifully performed naivety with a profound intellect
but also a shrewd and funny Catullus' – 'Isobel Williams' naughty translation puts the Roman poet in a bondage dungeon
