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The Furies

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In The Furies, Moira Egan offers fierce feminist reimaginings of familiar myths and narratives, from Arachne to Echo, from Medusa and Mary Magdalene to the female characters of The Odyssey, in verse that highlights the value of solidarity and collective strength among women. With dazzling erudition and playful ingenuity, she deploys exuberant wordplay and traditional poetic forms to subvert the ... Read more

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In The Furies, Moira Egan offers fierce feminist reimaginings of familiar myths and narratives, from Arachne to Echo, from Medusa and Mary Magdalene to the female characters of The Odyssey, in verse that highlights the value of solidarity and collective strength among women. With dazzling erudition and playful ingenuity, she deploys exuberant wordplay and traditional poetic forms to subvert the
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Galatea

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An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, featuring a new afterword from the authorIn ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece—the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen—the gift of life. After marrying her, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility ... Read more

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An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, featuring a new afterword from the authorIn ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece—the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen—the gift of life. After marrying her, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility
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Complete Works of Sappho (Delphi Classics)

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Series Book 13 - Delphi Ancient Classics
This is the only digital version of Sappho’s work that presents each fragment in the original Greek alongside a concise brand new English translation. A brief biography is also included, as well as an Ancient Greek pronunciation section, allowing you to read aloud and experience the true beauty of Sappho’s original text. (Version 2)Features:* new translation of the surviving fragments* includes ... Read more

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This is the only digital version of Sappho’s work that presents each fragment in the original Greek alongside a concise brand new English translation. A brief biography is also included, as well as an Ancient Greek pronunciation section, allowing you to read aloud and experience the true beauty of Sappho’s original text. (Version 2)Features:* new translation of the surviving fragments* includes
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The Beauty of the Husband

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by Anne Carson ...

Series series Vintage Contemporaries
The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice–29 “tangos” of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and ... Read more

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The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story of a marriage. It is told in 29 tangos. A tango (like a marriage) is something you have to dance to the end.This clear-eyed, brutal, moving, darkly funny book tells a single story in an immediate, accessible voice–29 “tangos” of narrative verse that take us vividly through erotic, painful, and
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Divine Dicks and Mortal Pricks

Greek Myths for Feminists

by Walburga Appleseed ...

This is a book about divine dicks, mortal pricks, and some epically long-suffering women.The Ancient Greek myths and epics have spent the last few thousand years focusing on all the testosterone and willy-waving that their so-called heroes got up to. Now, at long last, it’s time to shine a light on the goddesses, nymphs and queens who had to endure all that unwanted wooing, the wrath of vengeful ... Read more

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This is a book about divine dicks, mortal pricks, and some epically long-suffering women.The Ancient Greek myths and epics have spent the last few thousand years focusing on all the testosterone and willy-waving that their so-called heroes got up to. Now, at long last, it’s time to shine a light on the goddesses, nymphs and queens who had to endure all that unwanted wooing, the wrath of vengeful
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Vita Nova

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn Vita Nova, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Glück manages the apparently impossible: a terrifying act of perspective that brings into resolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces that shape and thwart itSince Ararat in 1990, Louise Glück has been exploring a form that is, according to the poet, Robert Hass, her invention. Vita Nova--like its ... Read more

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn Vita Nova, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Glück manages the apparently impossible: a terrifying act of perspective that brings into resolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces that shape and thwart itSince Ararat in 1990, Louise Glück has been exploring a form that is, according to the poet, Robert Hass, her invention. Vita Nova--like its
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The Golden Riches of Lucifuge Rofocale

by Carl Nagel ...

Follow me, and come lay thy hands on the treasure.- Lucifuge Rofocale, The Grand Grimoire.Lucifuge Rofocale is the Infernal Prime Minister of Hell. He has the Power to give wealth to those who invoke him. He commands the three Goetian Spirits Bael, Agares and Marbas. Lucifuge was once invoked through a complicated magical formula found in The Grand Grimoire, a 16th century manuscript of unknown ... Read more

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Follow me, and come lay thy hands on the treasure.- Lucifuge Rofocale, The Grand Grimoire.Lucifuge Rofocale is the Infernal Prime Minister of Hell. He has the Power to give wealth to those who invoke him. He commands the three Goetian Spirits Bael, Agares and Marbas. Lucifuge was once invoked through a complicated magical formula found in The Grand Grimoire, a 16th century manuscript of unknown
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Boy with Thorn

by Rickey Laurentiis ...

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In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation—the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence. The personal and political crash into one language here, gothic as it is supple, meditating on visual art ... Read more

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In a landscape at once the brutal American South as it is the brutal mind, Boy with Thorn interrogates the genesis of all poetic creation—the imagination itself, questioning what role it plays in both our fascinations with and repulsion from a national history of racial and sexual violence. The personal and political crash into one language here, gothic as it is supple, meditating on visual art
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Galatea and Pygmalion

by Kate Danley ...

A young woman in ancient Greece is tasked with carving a new statue for Aphrodite's temple. But what happens when she falls in love with her art?GALATEA AND PYGMALION first appeared in the ONCE UPON A KISS anthology.ONCE UPON A KISS - Utopia Award Winner for Best Anthology 2017 ... Read more

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A young woman in ancient Greece is tasked with carving a new statue for Aphrodite's temple. But what happens when she falls in love with her art?GALATEA AND PYGMALION first appeared in the ONCE UPON A KISS anthology.ONCE UPON A KISS - Utopia Award Winner for Best Anthology 2017
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Drunken Chaos

by Antonin Januska ...

The duo of epic poems go hand in hand as journeys through the growth of individual psyches.The first poem "Drunken Poesie" is an epic about an old man sitting at a tavern, an old anachronistic pub. He trades drinks for stories from his long tired life. After every story, he calls for the listeners to give him more alcohol and he moves on. He draws quite the crowd.a Chaos Organized is a separate ... Read more

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The duo of epic poems go hand in hand as journeys through the growth of individual psyches.The first poem "Drunken Poesie" is an epic about an old man sitting at a tavern, an old anachronistic pub. He trades drinks for stories from his long tired life. After every story, he calls for the listeners to give him more alcohol and he moves on. He draws quite the crowd.a Chaos Organized is a separate
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Speaking Volumes

by Bradford Morrow ...

Series Book 63 - Conjunctions
From a lineup of acclaimed literary talents, wide-ranging works centering on books and bibliophilia.Writing about writing itself and about the books that are home to the written word. A library of ideas about language and the book in all their forms, Speaking Volumes collects poetry, fiction, and narrative nonfiction on historic, forbidden, repurposed, mistranslated, imaginary, lost, and life ... Read more

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From a lineup of acclaimed literary talents, wide-ranging works centering on books and bibliophilia.Writing about writing itself and about the books that are home to the written word. A library of ideas about language and the book in all their forms, Speaking Volumes collects poetry, fiction, and narrative nonfiction on historic, forbidden, repurposed, mistranslated, imaginary, lost, and life
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Anne Was Always In The Next Room ...

... Except When We Were In The Same Room Together

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Writings and Poems from David.In loving memory of my wife Anne. ... Read more

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