9780375707568
Men in the Off Hours
Anne Carson
ISBN 13: 9780375707568
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Softcover
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"One of the most innovative poets writing today." --Seattle Weekly
The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group's reading and discussion of the work of Anne Carson, whom Michael Ondaatje praised as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Carson is a winner of the prestigious MacArthur fellowship, and has been the recipient of much admiration in the literary world. She is credited with the invention of an entirely new kind of poetry, fusing free verse with prose passages, using pastiche to startling effect, combining searing emotion with austere intellect. Interspersing her own words with quotes and references to sources that range from classical Greek literature, St. Augustine, the Bible, and the Tao to Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Carson constructs an astonishing art that is able to arouse, like nothing else in recent years, new emotional and intellectual energies in her readers. As one reviewer commented, "There's good reason that Carson's reputation has soared to a level equal to that of the half-dozen most admired contemporary American poets. . . . She has . . . a vast habitat, to every bit of which she brings powerful perception and a freshness as startling as a loud knock at the door" (Calvin Bedient, "Celebrating Imperfection," a review of Men in the Off Hours. The New York Times Book Review, 5/14/00).
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"It's hard to say what really interests Carson, largely because so much does....Certainly there are weaknesses in the book, though to me its grab-bag character isn't one of them....[T]here's good reason that Carson's reputation has soared to a level equal to that of the half-dozen most admired contemporary American poets. She's tremendously gifted and, without lowering standards, often writes in a middle range between philosophy and lyricism, where many can find her."
Calvin Bedient, New York Times Book Review, 05/14/2000
Review:"It's hard to imagine a better book will be published this year."
Stephen Whited, Book, July/August 2000
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