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A review by shanviolinlove
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
5.0
Formidable writing.
Anne Carson's poetry asks bold questions, sometimes in the backdrop and sometimes in the forefront of a scene played between husband and wife, between wife and husband's friend, calling Keats' famous truth and beauty into the crumbling structure of love and marriage.
Carson's intelligent, probing voice wields the story she creates with Keats' work, with allusions to fiction, to classic mythology, casting the story of love and adultery in the universal work. By far one of the best books of poetry I've read this year.
Anne Carson's poetry asks bold questions, sometimes in the backdrop and sometimes in the forefront of a scene played between husband and wife, between wife and husband's friend, calling Keats' famous truth and beauty into the crumbling structure of love and marriage.
Carson's intelligent, probing voice wields the story she creates with Keats' work, with allusions to fiction, to classic mythology, casting the story of love and adultery in the universal work. By far one of the best books of poetry I've read this year.