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Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman
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Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
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ISBN10: 0375712402
ISBN13: 9780375712401
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Sep 15 2015
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 4.30 Depth: 6.70
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780375712401
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: Sep 15 2015
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 4.30 Depth: 6.70
Language: English
Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman brings to life a colorful menagerie of fantastical creatures from across the ages. Humans have always defined themselves by imagining the inhuman; the gloriously gruesome monsters that enliven our literary legacy haunt us by reflecting our own darkest possibilities. The poems gathered here range in focus from extreme examples of human monstrousness--murderers, cannibals, despotic Byzantine empresses--to the creatures of myth and nightmare: dragons, sea serpents, mermaids, gorgons, sirens, witches, and all sorts of winged, fanged, and fire-breathing grotesques. The ghastly parade includes Beowulf's Grendel, Homer's Circe, William Morris's Fafnir, Lewis Carroll's Jabberwock, Robert Lowell's man-eating mermaid, Oriana Ivy's Baba Yaga, Thom Gunn's take on Jeffrey Dahmer, and Shakespeare's hybrid creature Caliban, of whom Prospero famously concedes, This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine. Monster Verse is both a delightful carnival of literary horror and an entertainingly provocative investigation of what it means to be human.
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