Erou
Published on 3. September 2019
124 pages
978-1-945588-58-7 (ISBN)
Description
Maya Phillips' stunning debut collection Erou borrows the framework of the traditional Greek epic to interrogate the inner workings of a present-day nuclear family and the role of a patriarch whose life, marriage, and death are imagined as a sort of hero's journey. Her poems move seamlessly between the worlds of the living and the dead, between myth and reality in a journey that raises its own Homeric question: What is home and how do we locate our place within that home? These are poems of passion and compassion in their reconciliation with what cannot be changed-but can be understood-by those who have been left behind.
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Augury
- Erou i.
- 23 Madison Avenue
- Erou I.
- Erou II.
- Underground
- Erou III.
- January 3, 2015
- At the Doctor's Office
- Ode to My Father's Failed Heart
- Erou IV.
- Offering
- Hades, Hosting
- Erou V.
- Erou VI.
- Anniversary Argonautica
- A List of Things That Don't Escape Her
- Daddy says
- Famous Last Words
- Persephone, in Part
- Erou VII.
- Erou VIII.
- Of Late
- Haunt
- Erou IX.
- Erou X.
- Losing His Cool
- Ode to My Father's Failed Kidney
- Erou XI.
- Erou XII.
- The Woman
- Erou XIII.
- Dido
- Sometimes my father is a roaming hunger
- The Woman, Too, Has Something to Say
- Erou XIV.
- Persephone, Engaged
- Erou XV.
- In Consideration of Love
- Circe
- Erou XVI.
- Hades, Artificer
- Erou XVII.
- Persephone, Rising
- Autopsy
- The Kindly Ones
- Currency
- After His Death Will My Father Be Beautiful
- At the Therapist's Office
- And/Or
- Erou XVIII.
- A Kind of Temperament
- Alecto
- Unconditional
- Erou XIX.
- In Which My Mother and Father Meet for Brunch After His Death
- Say
- Revision
- Telemachus
- Poem Ending with a Scene of a Woman Alone
- Argo
- Ending
- Nepenthe
- Erou XX.
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
