With its quiet, acute spirituality and its fearless wit and sensuality, Men in the Off Hours shows us a fiercely individual poet at her best. From the Back Cover Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today/5(20). · "Men in the Off Hours" by Anne Carson The poet's breathtaking fourth collection takes in the picnic of sex and love and death that time spreads in its wake. By Kate MosesEstimated Reading Time: 5 mins. 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 www.doorway.ru Men in the Off Hours, Carson reinvents figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon.5/5.
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, and Audubon. 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 endure. In Men in the Off Hours, Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. ― Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours. tags: english-verse, verse. 7 likes. Like "In myth, women's boundaries are pliant, porous, mutable. Her power to control them is inadequate, her concern for them unreliable. Deformation attends her. She swells, she shrinks, she leaks, she is penetrated, she suffers metamorphoses.
Anne Carson's two previous books string their wonderful perturbations along narrative lines, but "Men in the Off Hours" is a deliberately unstrung chaos, which Carson calmly, almost academically sorts through. Metaphor, she decides, is "the willful creation of error," and poetry consists of misunderstandings and mistranslations (even by a. '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.'. Anne Carson, the Canadian poet who has been called "a philosopher of heartbreak," drops a clue to the preoccupation of her fourth collection of verse, "Men in the Off Hours," in a poem titled "New.
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