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Out from the Pleiades

- a picaresque novella in verse

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"A rollicking, raucous, new myth, a classic..." A lyrical exploration of how a bully comes into being. "'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." -Amy King, poet, I Want to Make You Safe and Slaves To Do These Things "Leslie McGrath's Out from the Pleiades 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. Out from the Pleiades 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." -Susanne Paola Antonetta, poet The Lives of the Saints, and author of Make Me a Mother: a memoir "Out from the Pleiades 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, Paradise, Indiana and The Year We Studied Women

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781937543808
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 74
  • Udgivet:
  • 7. september 2014
  • Størrelse:
  • 152x229x5 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 122 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 2-3 uger
Forventet levering: 26. november 2024

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"A rollicking, raucous, new myth, a classic..." A lyrical exploration of how a bully comes into being. "'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." -Amy King, poet, I Want to Make You Safe and Slaves To Do These Things "Leslie McGrath's Out from the Pleiades 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. Out from the Pleiades 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." -Susanne Paola Antonetta, poet The Lives of the Saints, and author of Make Me a Mother: a memoir "Out from the Pleiades 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, Paradise, Indiana and The Year We Studied Women

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