Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 09/11/2000
ISBN: 9780224061049
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 211mm x 13mm x 145mm
Weight: 215g
RRP: £15.00
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.
Imprint: Jonathan Cape
Published: 09/11/2000
ISBN: 9780224061049
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 211mm x 13mm x 145mm
Weight: 215g
RRP: £15.00
The most exciting poet writing in English today
Her work is full of moments of startling originality and beauty. If she was a prose writer, she would be instantly recognised as a genius
Fragmentary, long-lined, often barely punctuated and flipping between the classical and the mdoern, it's a remarkable creation, funny and philosophical
Carson writes in language any poet would kill for: sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender, brilliantly lighted
Anne Carson is a daring, learned, unsettling writer