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Автор: Kim Triedman
Год: 2013
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 82
ISBN: 9781625490537
The stark prose poems of Kim Triedman's HADESTOWN document the dark beauty that emerges from the deepest depths of humanity's underworld. "In his final penitential labor, the Greek hero Heracles descends into the underworld to capture Cerberus, the nether region's three-headed guard dog--the West's primordial pit-bull. In HADESTOWN, her wildly evocative and dazzlingly associative sequence of prose poems, Kim Triedman transforms the hero's descent into a fraught road trip plumbing the cultural, social, and psychological depths. Part mythic quest, part post-apocalyptic travel narrative, HADESTOWN is a palimpsest that overlays traditional storytelling with shadows of immigrant passages and the dire conflicting histories of our own moment. In doing so, she has carried into the light a vision of our contemporary underworld. Euripides meets Blade Runner. Becket meets Survivor."-Daniel Tobin "A gritty gut-punch of a book, HADESTOWN deliberately enervates Herakles' great myth of suffering....
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