In an astonishing booklength sequence, Pulitzer Prizewinning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of The Odyssey. Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting into an act of will here, too, is a worldly Circe, a divided Odysseus, and a shrewd adolescent Telemachus. Through these classical figures, Meadowlands explores such timeless themes as the endless negotiation of family life, the cruelty that intimacy enables, and the frustrating trivia of the everyday. Gluck discovers in contemporary life the same quandary that lies at the heart of The Odyssey the unanswerable/affliction of the human heart how to divide/the worlds beauty into acceptable/and unacceptable loves.

Binding: Paperback;80 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Classification: N/A; Weight: 241.11 g; Dimensions: N/A

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