{"product_id":"eating-in-the-underworld-rachel-zucker-9780819566287","title":"Eating in the Underworld","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems using the Persephone myth to explore the life of a contemporary woman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Strousse Award fro Best Group of Poems (2002)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Rachel Zucker's re-imagining of the Greek myth, Persephone is a daughter struggling to become a woman. Unlike the classical portrait of a maiden kidnapped by a tyrant, Zucker's Persephone chooses to travel to the Underworld and assume her role as Hades' queen. Caught between worlds--light and dark, innocence and power, a mother's protection and a lover's appeal--Persephone describes the strangeness of the Underworld and the problems of transformation and transgression. The arrangement of Zucker's poems reflects Persephone's travels between the Underworld and the Surface. Both spare and lyrical, they are written as entries in Persephone's diary and as letters between Persephone, Demeter, and Hades. The language--strange, urgent, direct--is pulled and changed as Persephone journeys from one world to another revealing the struggle of unmaking and remaking the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Zucker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0819566284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780819566287\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wesleyan University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.14h x 6.02w x 0.26d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2003 pg. 142","brand":"Rachel Zucker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926498902271,"sku":"9780819566287","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_439bc70d-7fca-43d0-837d-6ff111980a0d.jpg?v=1681083413","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/eating-in-the-underworld-rachel-zucker-9780819566287","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}