ARGONAUT BOOKS

The unnamed narrator speaks of the man she calls only 'the husband', illuminating moments that are by turn sensual, erotic, painful and heartbreaking in this narrative poem. Reviews The most instantly penetrating of contemporary poets... she has great intellectual and emotional knowledge, a vast habitat, to every bit of which she brings powerful perception and a freshness as startling as a loud knock at the doorNew York Times Book Review - Calvin BedientAnne Carson, a Canadian, is quite remarkable. She really has captured me. I have been reading her obsessively over the past...Read More