Songs and Stories of the Ghouls

Songs and Stories of the Ghouls
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Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages : 209
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ISBN-10 : 9780819571533
ISBN-13 : 0819571539
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Book Synopsis Songs and Stories of the Ghouls by : Alice Notley

Download or read book Songs and Stories of the Ghouls written by Alice Notley and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left dead after our cultures were broken by triumphant enemies, our stories changed to suit others. We now change them again to suit ourselves. Songs and Stories of the Ghouls purports to give power to the dead—voices to the victims of genocide both ancient and contemporary—and presence to women. Medea did not kill her sons; Dido founds a city, over and over again, the city of the present author's poetry. In these poems the poet asserts that though her art comes from a tradition as broken as Afghanistan's statuary, there is always a culture to pass on to one's children, and one is always involved in doing so. We are the ghouls, the drinkers of the blood-sacs, and we insist that we are alive.


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