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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love Hurts,
By "krchicago" (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (Paperback)
Anne Carson has written a beautiful book of poems/tangoes that somehow tell the story of a marriage without actually telling a story. We have fully realized moments, conversations (Carson writes amazing poetic conversations, here and in her other works), events -- without all the connections in between. And yet these moments are woven together, internally and from one tango to the next, with language used as the steps of a dance, providing motifs and figures that carry the reader from one page to the next. Dance, games, rules, war, the rules of war, love, beauty, truth, lies and betrayal -- all of these themes run in and out of the complicated pattern of steps. The technique always serves the lyric, however, and we never lose sight of the feelings Carson wishes to evoke. You feel the separate pains of each betrayal (her betrayal of her mother, the not-yet-husband's failure to appear for their wedding, his first infidelity, each subsequent lie), but despite the pain there is no bitterness in this book -- in fact, Carson's final advice is to "hold beauty." Just as you cannot tell the tale of the lover without telling the tale of the beloved (as the final poem ironically suggests), so, perhaps, you cannot have love, beauty and truth without their opposites. Carson, plainly, is on the side of beauty.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
VERY STRONG BOOK BY A MAJOR POET IN ENGLISH,
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This review is from: The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (Hardcover)
I disagree with the naysayers.....I just heard Ms. Carson read some of these poems and they are powerful and emotional. These poems are very different from GLASS, IRONY AND GOD or AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN RED but she is just increasing her range. I am amazed at how wide she is able to cast her net, her economy of language, her wide range of references in history, literature, the classics, pop culture. I think when you see her read (and I think her poetry is still great if one doesn't hear her read) her wry humour really clicks....it is amazing how much emotion she is able to convey through her wit....I think she is one of the most unique and refreshing voices in literature today. She is a very exciting poet.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
What does the lover want from Love?,
By fishbola (San Mateo, California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (Paperback)
The storyteller in the The Beauty of the Husband is a woman who may or may not be Anne Carson, recollecting a failing marriage with a beating mind. Like other great stylists - Proust for example, her form of telling a story is peerless. Because after you have grasped the story why go back except to relish in style? As Godard has pointed out, "what is art except that by which forms become style." Perhaps Carson herself has written the best synopsis to her book,
what is the nature of the dance called memory : Proust used to weep over days gone by, do you? So put on Piazzolla, read this book and answer for yourself what a lover wants from the beloved. Start with a little beauty and truth...
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