The Beauty of the Husband
A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Written by Anne Carson
Format: eBook, 160 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $13.95
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s 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...
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Men in the Off Hours
Written by Anne Carson
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2009
Price: $13.00
Following her widely acclaimed
Autobiography of Red ("A spellbinding achievement" --Susan Sontag), a new collection of poetry and prose that displays Anne Carson's signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.
In
Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson...
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If Not, Winter
Fragments of Sappho
Written by Sappho
Translated by Anne Carson
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $15.95
A bilingual edition of the work of the Greek poet Sappho, in a new translation by Anne Carson.
Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from about 630 b.c. She was a musical genius who devoted her life to composing and performing songs. Of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said...
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That Night We Were Ravenous
Written by John Steffler
Format: eBook, 128 pages
On Sale: February 24, 2009
Price: $14.95
A beautiful new edition of the award-winning collection from Canada’s new Poet Laureate.
Newfoundland-born poet John Steffler is one of this country’s most accomplished writers. Recently named Canada’s national poet, he is the author of
The Grey Islands (poems) and the award-winning novel
The Afterlife of George Cartwright, both of which have...
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That Night We Were Ravenous
Written by John Steffler
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: September 11, 2007
Price: $14.95
A beautiful new edition of the award-winning collection from Canada’s new Poet Laureate.
Newfoundland-born poet John Steffler is one of this country’s most accomplished writers. Recently named Canada’s national poet, he is the author of
The Grey Islands (poems) and the award-winning novel
The Afterlife of George Cartwright, both of which have...
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Also available as an
eBook.
If Not, Winter
Fragments of Sappho
Written by Sappho
Translated by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2003
Price: $15.95
Of the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho’s fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the...
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The Beauty of the Husband
A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2002
Price: $13.95
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s 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...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Men in the Off Hours
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $13.00
Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile,
The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to...
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Also available as an
eBook.
Plainwater
Essays and Poetry
Written by Anne Carson
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 28, 2000
Price: $15.00
The poetry and prose collected in
Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as "the most exciting poet writing in English today." Succinct and astonishingly beautiful, these pieces stretch the boundaries of language and literary form, while juxtaposing classical and modern...
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Handwriting
Poems
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2000
Price: $11.00
"Tumultuous, vibrant, tragic and over too soon." --
NewsdayHandwriting is Michael Ondaatje's first new book of poetry since
The Cinnamon Peeler. The exquisite poems collected here draw on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories to weave a rich tapestry of images that reveal the longing for--and expose the anguish over--lost loves, homes...
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