Description
| Product ID: | 9781925950007 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | AU |
| Title: | The Sacking of the Muses |
| Authors: | Author: Susan Hawthorne |
| Page Count: | 136 |
| Subjects: | Poetry, Poetry, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating When the Muses are sacked, what are we to do? The Muses who inspire poetry, astronomy, history and daily living bring their song and dance into present-day political struggles. These Muses are for rebellion. the Muses have been sacked their role in the pantheonsold up for some new real estate venture When the Muses are sacked, what are we to do? The Muses who inspire poetry, astronomy, history and daily living bring their song and dance into present-day political struggles. These Muses are for rebellion. Susan Hawthorne’s poems span millennia of resistance by women. The earth itself is implicated. She writes about women''s bodies, how they are used, abused and celebrated in birthing, in sexual pleasure, in grief, in imagining. She draws on stories from ancient and contemporary India, from Greece and Rome, through language, storytelling and translation. we embrace our double lives like actors and their alter egos some say śleṣa is unnatural I''ve heard the same said about us |
| Imprint Name: | Spinifex Press |
| Publisher Name: | Spinifex Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-11-01 |
