Demeter Goes Skydiving (Currents (Inactive))

McCaslin, Susan

ISBN 10: 0888645511 / ISBN 13: 9780888645517

Edité par The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press, 2011

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Tight, sturdy, and clean. Text is free of markings. Very light shelfwear. NOT ex-lib. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Demeter Goes Skydiving (Currents (Inactive))
• Éditeur: The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
• Date de parution: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0888645511
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780888645517
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Poids: 7 onces
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

What if Demeter, the timeless fertility goddess of ancient Greek myth, slipped through a crack into the twenty-first century, shook off her ankle bracelets, corn tassels, and garlands, and began a tour of our improbable culture? Award-winning poet Susan McCaslin exercises the profound mother-daughter trauma forged in the Demeter-Persephone myth with unapologetic modernity. This sequence takes on a novel life all its own: Hades steals away the maiden into a cult/culture of distorted body image, addiction, high anxiety, and rampant consumerism. Mother Demeter must negotiate this alien world of health clubs, paparazzi, and so-called reality shows locked in spiritual winter. McCaslin's lyrics are by turns profound, hilarious, and devastating as she journeys to the heart of a mother's love for her daughter. Here is poetry that seeks ties to the past inside the present, poetry that speaks to us all.

À propos de l?auteur

Susan McCaslin is a poet, educator, scholar, and author of fourteen volumes of poetry, including her most recent, Lifting the Stone.