Death of Persephone : a murder / poems by Yvonne Blomer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blomer, Yvonne, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

156 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Qualicum Beach, BC : Caitlin Press, [2024]

Summary:

"In Death of Persephone, the patriarchal myth of the maiden taken, raped, and made the potent and sexualized queen of the underworld is questioned, altered, flipped. Instead, we have Stephanie, a girl of seven, taken and raised by her Uncle H. who is obsessed by her, tries to control her, to keep her, to have her even as she blooms out from underneath him. In poems both lyrical and narrative, a woman paints Hecate on a building, a Hyacinth Macaw flies overhead, a detective bumbles from crime to crime. This is a city with a vast underground where bats hang and paperwhites bloom, a city where men still rule. Who sees what, who will pay, and who will survive in this ancient story altered at the core?"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781773861555

1773861557

OCLC:

1443718714

Publisher Number:

90101237725