Beneath

di Simon Perril (Autore)

Shearsman Books, 2015

Simon Perril's new collection is the twin to his Archilochus on the Moon, and continues his exploration of the tangled roots of ancient Greek lyric. A nekyia is an underworld story preserving a rite from classical antiquity wherein the living call up the dead, and are questioned about the future. Neobule was the bride-to-be of the first lyric poet, Archilochus-until her father inexplicably called it off and incurred the most infamous poetic wrath in literary history. The soldier-poet's scurrilous response shamed the entire family into committing suicide. "Beneath" tracks Neobule's arrival in Hades; and voices her gradual understanding of shadehood. She may be "a chorus of gasps / no lyre can pluck," but can still recall being "more shade above / in the mud-brick groves / of kitchens.""

• Autore: Simon Perril
• Editore: Shearsman Books
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 100 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 139 gr.
• EAN: 9781848614406

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