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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:136 pages
- Publisher:University of Alberta Press
- Publication Date:22/03/2011
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- ISBN:9780888645517
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:136 pages
- Publisher:University of Alberta Press
- Publication Date:22/03/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780888645517
