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In *The Beauty of the Husband*, award‑winning poet Anne Carson tells the story of a long‑term marriage that disintegrates, casting it as 29 intimate, narrative sonnets. Each tango serves as a musical metaphor for the progression of love, from ecstatic joy to painful dissolution. Throughout, Carson weaves Keats’s idea that beauty is truth into the fabric of the couple’s shared experiences, offering a stark, moving, and darkly humorous exploration of love and failure.
First publish date: 2001
Genre: Poetry/Narrative Poetry
Authors: Anne Carson
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