She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner

She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner

In She Who Lies Above, Beatriz Hausner brings Hypatia of Alexandria, the fourth-century Byzantine mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, to life. She does so through layered ventriloquism: publishing amorous correspondence from the feminist icon's friend and former student, Synesius of Cyrene, and scribing Hypatia's replies in turn.

These letters are "discovered" by Bettina Ungaro, a librarian and archivist by day and poet by night. She, in turn, collates the correspondence to build a vision of the couple's relationship while writing a kind of postmodern critique of contemporary book and reading culture. These interjections both borrow from and juxtapose writing from ancient times, and, in doing so, explore the evolution of modern knowledge keeping.

The result is a rigorous, hyper-layered collection of poems that are elegiac and erotic; steeped in appreciation for a life of books and the technical and transcendent brilliance their authors can exhibit.

Hausner, Beatriz: - Beatriz Hausner lives in Toronto. She is a literary translator of some renown, with more than twenty works of literature published to date. She was President of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada, as well as one of the founders of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. She is recognized for her tireless advocacy in the of international literature in English translation. She has a previous poetry collection, The Wardrobe Mistress, as well as several chapbooks of poetry.

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ISBN 13	9781771668200
ISBN 10	1771668202
Title	She Who Lies Above
Author	Beatriz Hausner
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Book*hug
Year published	2023-11-07
Number of pages	109
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