Demeter goes skydiving /
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| Author / Creator: | McCaslin, Susan, 1947- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2011. |
| Description: | 125 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Currents, a Canadian literature series Currents (Edmonton, Alta.) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8397533 |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Poems. |
| Physical Description: | 125 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780888645517 0888645511 |
