“The most exciting poet writing in English today.” —Michael Ondaatje

“I would read anything that [Anne Carson] wrote.” —Susan Sontag

“Brilliantly captured. . . . Reading her is to experience a euphonious, mystical sort of perplexity…punctuated by what the husband himself calls ‘short blinding passages’ . . . moments of almost unbearable poignancy.” —The New York Times

“Her best book. . . . Her poetry’s form and sensibility are quite unlike anything else.” —The Globe and Mail

“An exquisite meditation on love and loss that reads with the emotional—and with the ongoing resonance—of a great novel.” —ELLE

“With swift strokes depicting the illusions and disillusions of a marriage gone sour, Carson has managed to make the intellectual life hip. In her hands, a quote from Plato seems as natural as a pop reference. . . . Then there are the lines of sheer lyricism, lines that send us spinning back to the idea of beauty, of truth.” —Miami Herald