Agrippina the Younger : poems /
Agrippina the Younger follows one woman's study of another, separated by thousands of miles and two millennia but bound by a shared sense of powerlessness. Agrippina was a daughter in a golden political family, destined for greatness, but she hungered for more power than women were allowed. Exh...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Curbstone Press/Northwestern University Press,
2025.
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| Summary: | Agrippina the Younger follows one woman's study of another, separated by thousands of miles and two millennia but bound by a shared sense of powerlessness. Agrippina was a daughter in a golden political family, destined for greatness, but she hungered for more power than women were allowed. Exhausted by the misogyny of the present, Diana Arterian reaches into the past to try to understand the patriarchal systems of today. In lyric verse and prose poems, she traces Agrippina's rise, interrogating a life studded with intrigue, sex, murder and manipulation. Arterian eagerly pursues Agrippina through texts, ruins and films, exhuming the hidden details of the ancient noblewoman's life. These poems consider the valences of patriarchy, power and the archive to try to answer the question. How do we recover a woman erased by history? |
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| Physical Description: | 124 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780810148413 0810148412 |