Carson, Anne

Men in the Off Hours with: Ephemera

ISBN: 0375707565
New York, NY, USA: Vintage Contemporaries, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Presented here is a hybrid collection of short poems, verse essays, epitaphs, commemorative prose, interviews, scripts, and translations from ancient Greek and Latin by Anne Carson (b. 1950), the award-winning & prolific Canadian-born author & academician who taught & lived in Ann Arbor (& may still reside here). Many of these pieces include references to writers, thinkers, and artists, as well as historical, biblical, and mythological figures including, but not limited to: Antigone, Aristotle, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), René Descartes (1596-1650), Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), and Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). This collection also includes two personal pieces about Carson’s parents, the poem “Father’s Old Blue Cardigan” which deals with his mental decline due to Alzheimer’s disease and the prose piece “Appendix to Ordinary Time” that uses crossed-out phrases from the diaries and manuscripts of Virginia Woolf to craft an epitaph for her mother Margaret who died during the writing of the book. Men in the Off Hours won the inaugural Friggen Poetry Prize (2001) and made the shortlist for the T.S Eliot Prize (2000) and was a poetry finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (2000) and the Governor General’s Literary Award (2001). Includes ephemera from The New Yorker magazine issue from May 1, 2017, highlighting Carson’s “Saturday Night as an Adult” prose poem. From the collection of Laurence Goldstein (1943-2023), poet, editor, and professor in the University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature. Softcover: First softcover edition as detailed at copyright page, first printing as indicated by number sequence thereon. Book is in fine condition with some minor rubbing near spine on front and back covers; minor fraying / bumping to fine edges; and significant marginalia from Goldstein, the book's previous owner. Fine. [Item #7126]

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