The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats€s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.

This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice€“29 €œtangos€ of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and heartbreaking scenes from a long-time marriage that falls apart. Only award-winning poet Anne Carson could create a work that takes on the oldest of lyrical subjects€“love€“and make it this powerful, this fresh, this devastating.