The Beauty of the Husband

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [iv], 147. Pictorial card wraps in French flaps; maroon endpapers.

Winner of the 2001 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Recipient of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Award for Best Book of Poetry. Ranked #59 in The Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, (2019). A loose sequel to Autobiography of Red, (1998). Author's seventh book, subtitled 'a fictional essay in 29 tangos', expanding on Keats' theory that beauty is truth. A narrative verse novel whose subject is "the waywardness of lust and the disaffection of the heart as seen through a marital breakup." –Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review