A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos 
 
Anne Carson. 
 
Knopf: 2001. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Faint stain on the bottom edge of the text block. 147 pages. Near fine. 
 
Carson uses the poetic form of the tango to tell a story of a marriage which is also an essay about Keats’s notion that beauty is truth. Each Carson line has the whole book inside it while still levitating with its own greatness. 
 
“talking about movies at the same time movies they like 
and why and one of them says You know 
a good movie for me is when the enemy says something that makes sense. 
Then I get scared. 
Then I don’t know what could happen next 
And they go on torturing the guy. 
How? 
Dunking his head in a pail. 
God Ray I don’t want to see that."