{"product_id":"men-in-the-off-hours","title":"Men in the Off Hours","description":"\u003cb\u003eFROM ANNE CARSON, WINNER OF THE 2026 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK - A landmark collection that heralds \"a truly great poet of the twenty-first century\" (\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e) as she hones her inimitable style to perfection\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the poems and prose pieces of \u003ci\u003eMen in the Off Hours, \u003c\/i\u003eAnne Carson is, by turns, Sappho, Catullus, and Catherine Deneuve, deftly deploying her signature mixture of opposites--the classic and the modern, cinema and print, narrative and verse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReinventing figures as diverse as Oedipus, Emily Dickinson, and Audubon, Carson sets up startling juxtapositions: Lazarus among video paraphernalia, Virginia Woolf and Thucydides discussing war, Edward Hopper paintings illuminated by St. Augustine. And in a final essay, she meditates on the death of her mother. Reveling in unexpectedness and aware that \"the fact of the matter for humans is imperfection,\" \u003ci\u003eMen in the Off\u003c\/i\u003e Hours shows us a fiercely individual poet at her best.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841234317517,"sku":"9780375707568","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_3976c0f3-8b2b-404c-a435-216e13a8acfe.jpg?v=1792025706","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/men-in-the-off-hours","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}