Eating in the Underworld (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Eating in the Underworld (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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Poems using the Persephone myth to explore the life of a contemporary woman.
Winner of the Strousse Award fro Best Group of Poems (2002)
In Rachel Zucker's re-imagining of the Greek myth, Persephone is a daughter struggling to become a woman. Unlike the classical portrait of a maiden kidnapped by a tyrant, Zucker's Persephone chooses to travel to the Underworld and assume her role as Hades' queen. Caught between worlds―light and dark, innocence and power, a mother's protection and a lover's appeal―Persephone describes the strangeness of the Underworld and the problems of transformation and transgression. The arrangement of Zucker's poems reflects Persephone's travels between the Underworld and the Surface. Both spare and lyrical, they are written as entries in Persephone's diary and as letters between Persephone, Demeter, and Hades. The language―strange, urgent, direct―is pulled and changed as Persephone journeys from one world to another revealing the struggle of unmaking and remaking the self., ISBN13:9780819566287 ISBN10:0819566284 Material Type:paperback
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