Eating in the Underworld

by Rachel Zucker

Book Overview

Poems using the Persephone myth to explore the life of a contemporary woman.

Winner of the Strousse Award fro Best Group of Poems (2002)

In Rachel Zucker's re-imagining of the Greek myth, Persephone is a daughter struggling to become a woman. Unlike the classical portrait of a maiden kidnapped by a tyrant, Zucker's Persephone chooses to travel to the Underworld and assume her role as Hades' queen. Caught between worlds--light...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819566284
• ISBN13: 9780819566287
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up