Killing Orpheus
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An ambitious collection of poems that reckon with life and death through the point of view of famous speakers throughout history and literature, spanning from Penelope to Frankenstein's monster. A book that holds death in one hand and wonder in the other, Killing Orpheus explores the horror of mortality, the brutality of history, and the gentle miracles of love. Using received forms, especially the sonnet, this collection cycles through various speakers, including an aging Penelope, Frankenstein's monster, Isaac beneath Abraham's blade, and an elephant in Hannibal's army. Here are sprays of flowers and hungry alligators, lethal snakes, and a baby's first breath. Here are poems that reckon with death, but for the sake of life. Here is a poetic consciousness that shows us we must dare to make "a truce with loss" in order to go "spinning into love's bizarre abyss."
Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Killing Orpheus
$20.00
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$20.00
Regular price
Book Details
- Publisher:
- Carnegie-Mellon University Press
- ISBN:
- 9780887487255
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 88
- Authors:
- Forester McClatchey
- Published Date:
- 2026-02-19
- Language:
- English
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