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THE BEAUTY OFTHE HUSBAND is an essay on Keats's idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in twenty-nine tangos.A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.

"[B]oth entirely new and strangely familiar, like remembering a private language we thought we'd forgotten."

New Yorker, 03/12/2001

"I don't think there has been a book since Robert Lowell's LIFE STUDIES that has advanced the art of poetry quite as radically as Anne Carson is in the process of doing. Although I can understand why Carson's peers might bristle at the grandness of her ambition and squabble about her imperious disregard for even the laxest of forms, it seems to me that there is only one relevant question to be posed about her writing. What her fellow poets would do well to ask themselves is not whether what Carson is writing can or cannot be called poetry, but how has she succeeded in making it -- whatever label you give it -- so thrillingly new?"

Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review, 09/30/01

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