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Persephone in the late anthropocene : poems / Megan Grumbling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grumbling, Megan, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (119 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cincinnati : ACRE Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- Persephone in the Late Anthropocene vaults an ancient myth into the age of climate change.In this poetry collection, the goddess of spring now comes and goes erratically, drinks too much, and takes a human lover in our warming, unraveling world.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- I. Ascent
- She Was Pulling (Mother's Song)
- While She Was Gone
- A Different Kind of Pulling
- The New Farmer's Almanac Puzzle of the Day
- seeing her together (the Chorus)
- short shorts
- The New Farmer's Almanac Folklore for January
- Persephone's Lark Song
- From "Man on Man": I.2 Myth and Ritual
- trying so hard
- Blues Song
- her lover
- Adultery Song
- The New Farmer's Almanac Migration Forecast
- thirsting so hard
- Swallow Song
- From Cli-Fi and One-Offs
- her mother
- Winter Feast Song
- Atrazine
- The New Farmer's Almanac Home Remedies
- Cleft Song
- revirginize
- II. Search
- World of Explaining
- too susceptible
- Once Song
- From "Man on Man": III.2 Food Practices
- trouble eating
- Hungry, the Owner
- Song of Reasons
- fetishes, the language
- ever reddening
- From "Man on Man": IV.4 Sport and Recreation
- Fruit-Eating Song
- our hands
- Mystery Itself
- sounds in a mouth
- V.9 Eating Disorders
- Science Tricks for Children
- Some of us had started dreaming of motes
- A later school, calling itself Anti-Protagonism
- I will shrink my stomach so I can abide
- Nature Fact of the Day
- Too many mirrors
- Grow a gourd inside
- III. Descent
- Syndrome
- Grief-Telling
- Unnaming
- Guilt-Telling
- GoDarks or One-Offs
- To be Unlit
- Un-telling
- deadzones
- Dead zones?
- Rotting Ice? Heatstroke? Fleeing Drowning?
- Grief?
- What happened?
- Before Hades
- To the Shine and Clamor
- IV. And Ascent
- the life of her
- Word of the day
- frightening, beautiful veins
- Love tonic
- The Last Epoch to Name
- The New Farmer's Almanac Mystery of the Day
- to make light
- Light Song
- The New Farmer's Almanac Riddle of the Day
- A Funny-Looking Gourd.
- Notes
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-946724-33-5
- OCLC:
- 1202477004
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