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The Sacking of the Muses / Susan Hawthorne.

By: Publisher: North Geelong, VIC : Spinifex Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: vii, 127 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781925950007
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.4 23
Contents:
Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; Temper of the dance; anupada; love; Pūtanā; Kuntī 1; Ambā 1; Draupadī 1; Kuntī 2; anupada; exile; Draupadī 2; Karṇa 1; Ambā 2; Draupadī 3; Arjuna 1; anupada; war; Kuntī 3; Ambā 3; Arjuna 2; Karṇa 2; Kuntī 4; Draupadī 4; Draupadī 5; anupada; Embrace; Śleṣa; Fire Gods; Firewalk; Two Bright Horses; Storm Gods; Earthsky; AT2018cow; Ancient Cataclysm; Storm Season; Bṛhaspati's Cows; Surabhī and Nandinī; Uṣas; Twenty Stanzas of Meghadūta; Sarasvatīkanthabharana: Sarasvatī's Necklace.
Notes towards a Poem about Madhu / Honey DemonLagna; Pooja Rooms; Trijaṭā's Dream; Sappho's Butterfly; Sappho's Butterfly; Things a Lesbian Should Know; Nonsense; Sense; Patriarchal Grammar; Cyane; The Clamping of Alcmena; Circe; Fragment 16, Sappho; Fragment 22, Sappho; Five Rivers; The Sacking of the Muses; 01 The Sacking of the Muses; 02 Kalliope, Muse of Epic Poetry; 03 Muses are Organising; 04 Polyhymnia, Muse of Song; 05 Muses are Grieving; 06 Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy; 07 Muses in Hiding; 08 Ourania, Muse of Astronomy; 09 Muses Undercover; 10 Erato, Muse of Lyric Poetry.
11 Muses Writing a Manifesto12 Kleio, Muse of History; 13 Muses are Occupying; 14 Euterpe, Muse of Music; 15 Muses Love Pageants; 16 Thalia, Muse of Comedy; 17 Muses are Dancing; 18 Terpsichore, Muse of Dance; 19 Muses Come out of Hiding; 20 Tenth Muse, Sappho; Mnemosyne; The Festival of Memoria; Acknowledgements.
Summary: Susan Hawthorne's poems span millennia of resistance by women. The earth itself is implicated. She writes about women's bodies, how they are used, abused and celebrated in birthing, in sexual pleasure, in grief, in imagining. She draws on stories from ancient and contemporary India, from Greece & Rome, through language, storytelling & translation.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 821.4 HAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 68157

Includes bibliographical references.

Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; Temper of the dance; anupada; love; Pūtanā; Kuntī 1; Ambā 1; Draupadī 1; Kuntī 2; anupada; exile; Draupadī 2; Karṇa 1; Ambā 2; Draupadī 3; Arjuna 1; anupada; war; Kuntī 3; Ambā 3; Arjuna 2; Karṇa 2; Kuntī 4; Draupadī 4; Draupadī 5; anupada; Embrace; Śleṣa; Fire Gods; Firewalk; Two Bright Horses; Storm Gods; Earthsky; AT2018cow; Ancient Cataclysm; Storm Season; Bṛhaspati's Cows; Surabhī and Nandinī; Uṣas; Twenty Stanzas of Meghadūta; Sarasvatīkanthabharana: Sarasvatī's Necklace.

Notes towards a Poem about Madhu / Honey DemonLagna; Pooja Rooms; Trijaṭā's Dream; Sappho's Butterfly; Sappho's Butterfly; Things a Lesbian Should Know; Nonsense; Sense; Patriarchal Grammar; Cyane; The Clamping of Alcmena; Circe; Fragment 16, Sappho; Fragment 22, Sappho; Five Rivers; The Sacking of the Muses; 01 The Sacking of the Muses; 02 Kalliope, Muse of Epic Poetry; 03 Muses are Organising; 04 Polyhymnia, Muse of Song; 05 Muses are Grieving; 06 Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy; 07 Muses in Hiding; 08 Ourania, Muse of Astronomy; 09 Muses Undercover; 10 Erato, Muse of Lyric Poetry.

11 Muses Writing a Manifesto12 Kleio, Muse of History; 13 Muses are Occupying; 14 Euterpe, Muse of Music; 15 Muses Love Pageants; 16 Thalia, Muse of Comedy; 17 Muses are Dancing; 18 Terpsichore, Muse of Dance; 19 Muses Come out of Hiding; 20 Tenth Muse, Sappho; Mnemosyne; The Festival of Memoria; Acknowledgements.

Susan Hawthorne's poems span millennia of resistance by women. The earth itself is implicated. She writes about women's bodies, how they are used, abused and celebrated in birthing, in sexual pleasure, in grief, in imagining. She draws on stories from ancient and contemporary India, from Greece & Rome, through language, storytelling & translation.

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