The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is
also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage)
is something you have to dance to the end.

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.