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Beneath

Beneath

Perril, Simon

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1848614403
ISBN13: 9781848614406
Publisher: Summertime Pub
Published: Oct 1 2015
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Simon Perril's new collection is the twin to his Archilochus on the Moon, and continues his exploration of the tangled roots of ancient Greek lyric. A nekyia is an underworld story preserving a rite from classical antiquity wherein the living call up the dead, and are questioned about the future. Neobulé was the bride-to-be of the first lyric poet, Archilochus-until her father inexplicably called it off and incurred the most infamous poetic wrath in literary history. The soldier-poet's scurrilous response shamed the entire family into committing suicide. Beneath tracks Neobulé's arrival in Hades; and voices her gradual understanding of shadehood. She may be a chorus of gasps / no lyre can pluck, but can still recall being more shade above / in the mud-brick groves / of kitchens.

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