Men in the Off Hours: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
May 2009 · Sold by Vintage
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FROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A landmark collection that heralds “a truly great poet of the twenty-first century” (Time Out New York) as she hones her inimitable style to perfection
In the poems and prose pieces of Men in the Off Hours, Anne Carson is, by turns, Sappho, Catullus, and Catherine Deneuve, deftly deploying her signature mixture of opposites—the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.
Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon, Carson sets up startling juxtapositions: Lazarus among video paraphernalia, Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war, Edward Hopper paintings illuminated by St. Augustine. And in a final essay, she meditates on the death of her mother. Reveling in unexpectedness and aware that “the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection,” Men in the Off Hours shows us a fiercely individual poet at her best.
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A landmark collection that heralds “a truly great poet of the twenty-first century” (Time Out New York) as she hones her inimitable style to perfection
In the poems and prose pieces of Men in the Off Hours, Anne Carson is, by turns, Sappho, Catullus, and Catherine Deneuve, deftly deploying her signature mixture of opposites—the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse.
Reinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon, Carson sets up startling juxtapositions: Lazarus among video paraphernalia, Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war, Edward Hopper paintings illuminated by St. Augustine. And in a final essay, she meditates on the death of her mother. Reveling in unexpectedness and aware that “the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection,” Men in the Off Hours shows us a fiercely individual poet at her best.
FROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A landmark collection that heralds “a truly great poet of the twenty-first century” (Time Out New York) as she hones her inimitable style to perfection
In the poems and prose pieces of Men in the Off Ho...
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ANNE CARSON was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.
ANNE CARSON was born in Canada and has been a professor of Classics for over thirty years. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations.
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