Anne Carson

This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice–29 “tangos” 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

A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

The Beauty of the Husband

Terry Nguyen

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“Why did nature give me over to this creature—don't call it my choice, 

by some pure gravity of existence itself,

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