ISBN: 9780375408038 - men in the off hours (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Knopf, New York, 2000. First edition, as stated. First printing. Black cloth over cream paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a near fine jacket. Some slight rubbing to jacket and wear. 8vo. 163 pp. $24 original price on front jacket flap. Comes with an archival-quality Mylar dust jacket protector. A genre-defying collection of poetry, essays, translations, epitaphs, scripts, and prose pieces in which Carson brings classical literature into collision with the modern world, juxtaposing figures including Sappho, Catullus, Oedipus, Lazarus, Virginia Woolf, Thucydides, Audubon, and Edward Hopper. The collection ranges from meditations on war, art, desire, error, and antiquity to deeply personal pieces concerning Carson's parents. Men in the Off Hours won the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001. Carson won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2026.…

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. 1st Edition. Knopf, New York, 2000. First edition, as stated. First printing. Black cloth over cream paper-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine jacket. Purchased new and never opened. 8vo. 163 pp. $24 original price on front jacket flap. Comes with an archival-quality Mylar dust jacket protector. A genre-defying collection of poetry, essays, translations, epitaphs, scripts, and prose pieces in which Carson brings classical literature into collision with the modern world, juxtaposing figures including Sappho, Catullus, Oedipus, Lazarus, Virginia Woolf, Thucydides, Audubon, and Edward Hopper. The collection ranges from meditations on war, art, desire, error, and antiquity to deeply personal pieces concerning Carson's parents. Men in the Off Hours won the inaugural Griffin Poetry Prize in 2001. Carson won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2026.…