Men in the Off Hours (First Edition)
Language: English
Published by Knopf, New York, 2000
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.Dan Pope Books
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Knopf, New York, 2000. First edition, as stated. First printing. Black cloth over cream paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a near fine jacket. Some slight rubbing to jacket and wear. 8vo. 163 pp. $24 original price on front jacket flap. Comes with an archival-quality Mylar dust jacket protector. A genre-defying collection of poetry, essays, translations, epitaphs, scripts, and prose pieces in which Carson brings classical literature into collision with the modern world, juxtaposing figures including Sappho, Catullus, Oedipus, Lazarus, Virginia Woolf, Thucydides, Audubon, and Edward Hopper. The collection ranges from meditations on war, art, desire, error, and antiquity to deeply personal pieces concerning Carson's parents. Men in the Off Hours won the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001. Carson won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2026.
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- Title
- Men in the Off Hours (First Edition)
- Author
- Carson, Anne
- Publisher
- Knopf, New York
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0375408037
- ISBN 13
- 9780375408038
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Series
- Book 1 of 248: Vintage Contemporaries
In Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents 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 shows us "the most exciting poet writing in English today" (Michael Ondaatje) at her best.
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