Description
A daring hybrid of poetry, prose, translation, essays, scripts, and epitaphs, this collection moves fluidly between the ancient and the contemporary, scholarship and art, intimacy and performance. Classical figures and texts—including Sappho, Catullus, St. Augustine, and Oedipus—encounter modern artists, historical figures, and cinematic images in startling juxtapositions that test how meaning changes across languages, eras, and forms. With incisive wit, sensual precision, and a restless formal imagination, the work explores desire, grief, war, memory, imperfection, and the complicated choreography of human relationships. Erudite yet unexpectedly intimate, it showcases a singular literary voice transforming the materials of classical learning into emotionally charged modern poetry.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2011
ISBN: 9781448113392
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Details
First Published
2000
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson.