Persephone
by
Lyn Lifshin
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1597091243
ISBN-13
9781597091244
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Imprint
Red Hen Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 27th, 2008
Print length
184 Pages
Weight
249 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 15.20 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry by individual poets
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Like the mythic Persephone, these poems move between worlds of wild light and onyx darkness. Abducted by Hades, Persephone was kept captive in the underworld until her mother, Demeter, consumed with rage and sorrow, refused to let anything live or bloom. Grudgingly, Hades released her but only after she tasted the pomegranate he offered, a fruit th
Like the mythic Persephone, these poems move between worlds of wild light and onyx darkness. Abducted by Hades, Persephone was kept captive in the underworld until her mother, Demeter, consumed with rage and sorrow, refused to let anything live or bloom. Grudgingly, Hades released her but only after she tasted the pomegranate he offered, a fruit that kept her bound to him for three months of the year forever. These poems move between such ecstatic glimpses of love, sex, family and that underworld of pain, loss and dark coldness between parents and children, siblings, lovers and strangers. The blues and despair in her poems, immediate and powerful as the worlds of any woman who moves from darkness and cold into the green world of rebirth, light and flowers, highlights "the combination of eros, ebullience and triste, or sadness," a Lifshin trademark.
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