{"product_id":"out-from-the-pleiades-rachel-may-9781937543808","title":"Out from the Pleiades: a picaresque novella in verse","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A rollicking, raucous, new myth, a classic...\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e A lyrical exploration of how a bully comes into being. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"'Why didn't I get a Barbie Dreamhouse for Christmas?' So asks Mina immediately after wondering if she's a racist because she's white too. Priorities, place and position move our hero from well-meaning child to disconcerted bully, borne by a fear of impotence in the world as she tests her own privileged, small power over others. Out From the Pleiades is a rich romp, chockfull of feel-good details and enough unanswered questions to make anyone secure in their moral center come, a tiny bit, undone. Ride in Mina's 'yolk-colored Subaru' as she toes the surfaces of high school, passing through the stoic suicide of 'Ginger, ' until our war protestor comes full circle to the uncharted depths of 'Yes' in soldier Violet's golden eyes - and discovers the harsher power of love's undoing.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Amy King, poet, \u003ci\u003eI Want to Make You Safe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSlaves To Do These Things\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Leslie McGrath's \u003ci\u003eOut from the Pleiades\u003c\/i\u003e is a hybrid gem, a novella in verse that works utterly both as lyric poetry and as story. The life of protagonist Mina Kali, born to the Seven Sisters - a commune of \"radical warrior women\"--unfolds with an epic sweep, from the moment Mina 'raged forth from the dark red dark' to her final love and loss. \u003ci\u003eOut from the Pleiades\u003c\/i\u003e is a rollicking, raucous, new myth, a classic with its head in Aristophanes and its satiric heart in the 1960s. You will read these poems aloud, laughing, and then find them sneakily haunting you.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Susanne Paola Antonetta, poet \u003ci\u003eThe Lives of the Saints\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of \u003ci\u003eMake Me a Mother: a memoir\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eOut from the Pleiades\u003c\/i\u003e is a revealing character study, the story of \"Mina,\" a bully bred from the excesses of liberal culture. It's a testament to the book's complex vision that we both condemn and ultimately empathize with Mina as she makes her way through the world. It's a master class in the psychology of intimidation, marked by McGrath's signature wit, compassion and insight.\" -Bruce Snider, poet, \u003ci\u003eParadise, Indiana\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Year We Studied Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel May,Leslie McGrath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1937543803\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781937543808\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jaded Ibis Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.18d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rachel May","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486396395775,"sku":"9781937543808","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_76cb87a7-cf0a-461c-bc26-6f50dbd0c86d.jpg?v=1778055264","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/out-from-the-pleiades-rachel-may-9781937543808","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}