Men in the Off Hours

Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure.

In Men in the Off Hours, Carson offers further proof of her tantalizing gifts. 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 prose poem, she meditates movingly on the recent death of her mother. With its quiet, acute spirituality and its fearless wit and sensuality, Men in the Off Hours shows us a fiercely individual poet at her best.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/13/2001
ISBN: 9780375707568
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.12w x 0.45d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Nominee
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Nominee

Review Citations: New York Times 03/11/2001 pg. 32