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Ephemeron

Benson, Fiona2022
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The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short-lived and transitory - whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the first section, 'Insect Love Songs', the abrupt, anguished, physical and emotional changes during secondary school, as remembered in 'Boarding-School Tales', or parenting's day-by-day shifts through love and fear, hurt and healing, in 'Daughter Mother'. The long central section, 'Translations from the Pasiphaë', gathers these themes together in a blistering, unforgettable re-telling of the Greek myth of the Minotaur, as seen from the point of view of the bull-child's mother - the betrayed and violated Pasiphaë. The familiar legend of the dashing male hero slaying the monster in the labyrinth is transformed here into a story of ordinary people caught up in an extraordinary cycle of violence, power and the abuse of power.
Main title:
Ephemeron / Fiona Benson.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2022.
Collation:
112 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781787333710 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2532042
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