Ann Pedone, Katherine Soniat, D M Spitzer

Fates

The Medea Notebooks; Starfish Wash-Up; And Overflow of an Unknown Self

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Produktbeschreibung

"The Medea Notebooks by Ann Pedone: The Medea Notebooks opens up the ancient Greek story of Medea and Jason of the Argonauts by imagining three "Medeas": a re-working of the Medea character from the Euripides play, the writer of The Medea Notebooks herself, as well as the 20th century opera singer Maria Callas who played Medea both on stage, and in Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1969 film version of the myth. By weaving together three stories of marriage and murder, sex, and infidelity, the book seeks to explore and complicate our understanding of love, female sexual desire, and betrayal. Starfish Wash-up by Katherine Soniat: The writing of this ekphrastic collection began with the discovery of a 19th-century watercolor portrait of Telemachus kneeling by the Aegean seashore, back to his audience. Along with him, the reader searches the horizon for the Father (Odysseus) always it seems "off to another war" ...Telemachus thus becomes an archetypal symbol for the Lost Son, who really has no parental guidance (many times due to war). What remains across history is the many youth who in fact are still children of a missing parent. This focus repeats and circles into Modernity in this collection by also addressing the wreckage of our planet in current times due to Humankind's neglect-our own planet that offered us our first home. Life itself now in a tailspin in so many ecological ways. Overflow of an Unknown Self: A Song of Songs by D. M. Spitzer: The erotic theme and imagery, along with its apparent secular tone, distinguish the Song of Songs (also known as the Song of Solomon) from the other books of the Bible. But whose love, which lovers, does the Song celebrate? Traditionally, the Song narrates the relationship(s) of heterosexual lovers, even as interpretations have offered other, allegorical configurations that depart from the heterosexual rubric. Translated primarily from the Song of Songs included in the ancient Jewish Hebrew-to-Greek translation project called the Septuagint, D. M. Spitzer's overflow of an unknown self: a song of songs opens the ancient poem to and for the trans- moment. By way of a queering translation practice that replaces the text's hetero-gendered pronouns with the intimacy of direct address and its I-you paradigm, overflow of an unknown self attempts to widen the Song's full-throated praise of embodied, human loving. Arrayed in eight "Cantos" that point back to the Septuagint's presentation of the Song of Songs, each section of overflow of an unknown self trans-figures the poem, diversifying the reverberant possibilities arising from a text always-already in translation. Hopefully this translation creates a zone where more numerous arrangements of loving bodies can imagine themselves in the Song's celebration. overflow of an unknown self works to fray and break the circle of heteronormativity towards an ever-expanding horizon of sexualities radiant with the bright, multicolored lights and possibilities of inclusion, of diversity, of love"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Etruscan Press
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 249mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781736494684
• ISBN-10: 1736494686
• Artikelnr.: 64364990

Autorenporträt

Ann Pedone is the author of the chapbooks The Bird Happened (Leave Books), perhaps there is a sky we don't know: a re-imagining of sappho. (Cup and Dagger Press), DREAM/WORK, and Everywhere You Put Your Mouth (Halas Press.) Her work has appeared in numerous journals including American Journal of Poetry, Narrative Magazine, Juked, Carve Magazine, Abralemin, JuxtaProse, and Menacing Hedge. Ann has a Bachelor's Degree in English from Bard College, and a Master's in Chinese Language and Literature from UC Berkeley. Katherine Soniat's life has moved around a lot in the last few years: trying hard to find the RIGHT HOME, and why not be most concerned about our planet EARTH? Starfish Washup will be her ninth collection of poetry, to be published in Spring, 2023. The Swing Girl (LSU Press, 2011), Bright Stranger (LSU Press). Polishing the Glass Storm will be available through Louisiana State University Press in fall, 2022. The Goodbye Animals won the Turtle Island Chapbook Award (2014). She has been on the faculty at Hollins University and Virginia Tech, and has taught in the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC/Asheville. Her poetry has appeared in Hotel Amerika, Poetry, Iowa Review, The Nation, Women's Review of Books, and Superstition Review, among others. D. M. Spitzer is author of A Heaven Wrought of Iron: Poems from the Odyssey (Etruscan 2016), abyss of departures, an imagetext collaboration with digital artist SaraShiva Spitzer (Hawai'i Review, 2020), and editor of the volume Philosophy's Treason: Studies in Philosophy and Translation (Vernon Press, 2020). Spitzer's work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Research in Phenomenology, Epoché, Diacritics, Ancient Philosophy, Mosaic, and Translation Review, while his poetry and translations have been published in Ancient Exchanges, The Maine Review, North American Review, TRANSverse, and elsewhere. Currently, Dr. Spitzer is co-editing a volume in Translation Studies and editing another collection of essays on ancient Greek philosophy (both under contract with Routledge). In addition, Spitzer is writing a book on the ways migration and trauma shaped the thinking of the earliest Greek philosophers, as well as working on a translation of only the similes from the ancient Greek epic The Iliad.