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Author Townsend, Alison.

Title Persephone in America / Alison Townsend.

Publication Info. Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, [2009]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 110 pages).
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Series Crab Orchard series in poetry
Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
Contents Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Persephone in America; One; Unexpected Harvest; The Addict; Splinter; Persephone at the Mall; The Favorite; Spin; Biology; At the Hairdresser: Persephone Reads Elle Magazine; Persephone, Pretending; The Cutter; What I Never Told You About the Abortion; A Winter's Tale; Demeter Faces Facts; Two; In the Luray Caverns: Persephone Writes Home; Mud Poem; A Bottle of Jean Naté; Beauty Lesson; My Mother and the Snake; Persephone Remembers: The Bed; Hospital Corners; Finding Hell on the Map.
American Chippendale-Style Mahogany Secretary Desk, 1845-1870Seeing the Virgin Mary at the University of Wisconsin Library Mall; Mother-Daughter Portrait; The Meadow; Three; Jane Morris Poses for Rossetti's Prosperine (1874); Forty-five This Spring; And Still the Music; Red Words; Between Green Flannel Sheets Splattered with Portuguese Roses; Blue Willow: Persephone Falling; Trichotillomania; Accepting the Flowers I Did Not Choose; Persephone Under; Love's Apprentice; Blood Elegy: Persephone at Midlife; Ruby Slippers.
Reading a Famous Woman Poet's New Book, also about Persephone, on the First Day of SpringAsparagus Season; Each Spring the Bloodroot; Ode to the Pomegranate; If I Called You River; Persephone at the Crosswalk; Notes; Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry; Back Cover.
Summary In Persephone in America, Alison Townsend deftly weaves autobiography with myth in this reinvention of the tale of Demeter and Persephone as seen from the modern woman's perspective. Fraught with emotional honesty, this captivating collection of lyrical and narrative poems chronicles the struggles of the figurative Persephone in three parts-the abduction, descent to the underworld, and return. Townsend turns a shrewd eye to her own experiences, as well as to the lives of other women, to offer an unflinching yet deeply compassionate exploration of such themes as girlhood and.
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Subject Poetry.
Poetry.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780809328963 0809328968 (DLC) 2008031313
ISBN 080938678X (electronic book)
9780809386789 (electronic book)
9780809328963 (alkaline paper)
0809328968 (alkaline paper)