The Beauty Of The Husband

"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 door" -- Calvin Bedient New York Times Book Review "Anne Carson, a Canadian, is quite remarkable. She really has captured me. I have been reading her obsessively over the past months. A stunning writer" -- Harold Bloom Paris Review "In every form we find a sly, plainspoken eroticism that is a perfect complement to her sly, plainspoken intellectual ardour... a truly great poet of the 21st century" -- Rebecca Wolff Time Out "She is an exceptionally exciting new voice" -- John Lancaster Daily Telegraph "Carson writes ina language any poet would kill for: sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender, brilliantly lighted" -- Ruth Padel New York Times Book Review