Zucker Eating in the Underworld

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8195-7613-2
Verlag: Wesleyan University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 80 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 203 mm

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zucker, Rachel

Über Autor(innen)

Zucker, Rachel
Rachel Zucker is the author of The Last Clear Narrative, The Bad Wife Handbook and Eating in the Underworld. She is the winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize, the Center for Book Arts Award and the Salt Hill Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in many well-known journals including: 3rd Bed, American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Epoch, Fence, Iowa Review, Pleiades and Prairie Schooner as well as in the Best American Poetry 2001 anthology.

RACHEL ZUCKER has taught at Yale and New York University. Winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize and the 2002 Center for Book Arts Award, her poetry has been published in APR, Colorado Review, Iowa Review and Pleiades, as well as in the Best American Poetry 2001 anthology. This is her first book.