Death of Persephone - Blomer, Yvonne
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In Death of Persephone, the patriarchal myth of the maiden taken, raped, and made the potent and sexualized queen of the underworld is questioned, altered, flipped. Instead, we have Stephanie, a girl of seven, taken and raised by her Uncle H. who is obsessed by her, tries to control her, to keep her, to have her even as she blooms out from underneath him. In poems both lyrical and narrative, a woman paints Hecate on a building, a Hyacinth Macaw flies overhead, a detective bumbles from crime to crime. This is a city with a vast underground where bats hang and paperwhites bloom, a city where men…mehr

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In Death of Persephone, the patriarchal myth of the maiden taken, raped, and made the potent and sexualized queen of the underworld is questioned, altered, flipped. Instead, we have Stephanie, a girl of seven, taken and raised by her Uncle H. who is obsessed by her, tries to control her, to keep her, to have her even as she blooms out from underneath him. In poems both lyrical and narrative, a woman paints Hecate on a building, a Hyacinth Macaw flies overhead, a detective bumbles from crime to crime. This is a city with a vast underground where bats hang and paperwhites bloom, a city where men still rule. Who sees what, who will pay, and who will survive in this ancient story altered at the core?
Autorenporträt
Yvonne Blomer is the author of poetry collections The Last Show on Earth and As if a Raven, as well as the travel memoir Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur. She works as an editor, teacher and mentor in poetry and memoir and served as the city of Victoria poet laureate from 2015- 2018. She is the editor of Refugium, Sweet Water, Poems for Planet Earth, and Hologram: Homage to P.K. Page. She won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Prize for Death of Persephone. She has performed in cities across the country and has had poems published in Canada, the UK and Japan.