Demeter Goes Skydiving

by Susan McCaslin and Alex Brown

What if Demeter, the timeless fertility goddess of ancient Greek myth, slipped through a crack into the twenty-first century, shook off her ankle bracelets, corn tassels, and garlands, and began a tour of our improbable culture? Award-winning poet Susan McCaslin exercises the profound mother-daughter trauma forged in the Demeter-Persephone myth with unapologetic modernity. This sequence takes on a novel life all its own: Hades steals away the maiden...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888645511
• ISBN13: 9780888645517
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up