Men in the off hours
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. 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. From the Hardcover edition
eBook, English, 2001
1st Vintage contemporaries ed View all formats and editions
Vintage Books, New York, 2001
1 online resource (vi, 166 pages) : illustrations
9780307557872, 0307557871
607185401
Ordinary time : Virginia Woolf and Thucydides on war
Wpitaph : Zion
First Chaldaic oracle
New rule
Sumptuous destitution
Epitaph : Annunciation
Hokusai
Audubon
Epitaph : Europe
Freud (1st draft)
Lazarus (1st draft)
Flatman (1st draft)
A station
Epitaph : Donne Clown
Flat Man (2nd draft)
Epitaph : Oedipus' nap
Shadowboxer
Lawarus (2nd draft)
Epitaph : Evil
Essay on what I think about most
Essay on what I hink about most
Essay on error (2nd draft)
Catullus : Carmina
Interview with Hara Tamiki (1950)
Father's old blue cardigan
"Why did I awake (Flatman 3rd draft)
Hopper : Confessions
TV men : Sappho, Artaud, Artaud, Tolstoy, Lazarus, Antigone (Scripts 1 and 2) Akhmatova (Treatment for a script), Thucydides in conversation with Virginia Woolf on the set of The Peloponnesian War, Sappho
Irony is not enough : essay on my life as Catherine Deneuve
Epitaph : Thaw
Freud (2nd draft)
Dirt and desire : essay on the phenomenology of female pollution in antiquity
No epitaph
Appendix to ordinary time
Electronic reproduction, [S.l.], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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