Men in the Off Hours (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Carson
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Poetry and essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: History, Television or television broadcasting, Time
Anne Carson’s Men in the Off Hours is challenging and exciting, and if it does not have quite the emotional pull of her last book, Autobiography of Red (1998), it teases and invigorates. Carson’s work invariably pushes the envelope; there are no boundaries she respects, and a part of the appeal of her work is in the odd juxtapositions and minglings that combine prose and poetry, ancient and modern, exalted and trivial, abstract and concrete. She is a true practitioner of bricolage, building surprising structures from the most unlikely materials.
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