The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 'tangos' of narrative verse, informed by the poet's own sensibility. This is a work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and power.
A long-time love, now a crumbling marriage, unfolds in 29 'tangos' of narrative verse, informed by the poet's own sensibility. This is a work that explores the oldest of lyrical subjects - beauty, desire, love, betrayal - with freshness and power.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780224061308 (0224061305)
Publish date: June 14th 2001
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Series: Cape Poetry
To abolish seduction is a mother's goal.She will replace it with what is real: products.Demeter's victoryover Hadesdoes not consist in her daughter's arrival from down below,it's the world in bloom-cabbages lures lambs broom sex milk money!These kill death.
Cross-posted on Readerling“Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or the sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irrestistably real and attractive to us – for that moment only. Not the fruit of experience, but ...
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