Wading through Lethe by Julie Kim Shavin

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Wading through Lethe by Julie Kim Shavin

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Wading through Lethe by Julie Kim Shavin

In Wading Through Lethe, a girl growing up in rural Arkansas learns to navigate life, love, and loss as she approaches womanhood. She leaves home to study and to travel. The heroes and gods of Greek myth appear alongside Christian saints; rural landscapes and cicadas give way to Gothic churches and the Roman Forum. Metamorphosis is at the heart of these poems-the necessary transformations that leave us changed as memory pulls us to the past, where nothing and everything is the same. With musical language, these formal and free verse poems highlight the way we shape memory and the inevitability of forgetting. In the end, the search becomes not about discarding the past but about choosing what we keep. Orpheus may have lost Eurydice, but there is still music.

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ISBN 13 9781952593208
ISBN 10 1952593204
Title Wading through Lethe
Author Julie Kim Shavin
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Futurecycle Press
Year published 2022-01-03
Number of pages 84
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.