Demeter Goes Skydiving (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780888645517)

Vendor: Susan McCaslin
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Format: Paperback
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Demeter Goes Skydiving

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Demeter Goes Skydiving

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What if Demeter, the timeless fertility goddess of ancient Greek myth, slipped through a crack into the twenty-first century, shook off her ankle bracelets, corn tassels, and garlands, and began a tour of our improbable culture? Award-winning poet Susan McCaslin exercises the profound mother-daughter trauma forged in the Demeter-Persephone myth with unapologetic modernity. This sequence takes on a novel life all its own: Hades steals away the maiden into a cult/culture of distorted body image, addiction, high anxiety, and rampant consumerism. Mother Demeter must negotiate this alien world of health clubs, paparazzi, and so-called reality shows locked in spiritual winter. McCaslin's lyrics are by turns profound, hilarious, and devastating as she journeys to the heart of a mother's love for her daughter. Here is poetry that seeks ties to the past inside the present, poetry that speaks to us all.

Author: Susan McCaslin
ISBN-10: 0888645511
ISBN-13: 9780888645517
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Language: English
Published: 03/22/2011
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d
By Susan McCaslin
By Susan McCaslin
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Susan McCaslin is a poet, educator, scholar, and author of fourteen volumes of poetry, including her most recent, Lifting the Stone. Susan lives in Fort Langley, BC. Having been honoured with Faculty Emerita status after twenty-three years as a professor of English and Creative Writing at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC, Susan is now a full-time writer, giving poetry workshops, talks, and readings. Visit her website at www.susanmccaslin.ca.

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