If you would let me /
If You Would Let Me uses the myth of Persephone and Demeter to explore, in an utterly contemporary idiom, the hellish descents and unequivocal love of a mother and an adolescent child. The old story is reimagined in new terms, a contemporary Persephone’s cycles of psychic affliction giving rise to b...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tribeca, New York :
Four Way Books,
[2026].
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| Summary: | If You Would Let Me uses the myth of Persephone and Demeter to explore, in an utterly contemporary idiom, the hellish descents and unequivocal love of a mother and an adolescent child. The old story is reimagined in new terms, a contemporary Persephone’s cycles of psychic affliction giving rise to botched facial piercings, social media ghostings and squalls of physical fury and revoiced in poems that sing Demeter’s rage, the depths of maternal grief, the seasons of erasure and renewal. In an electric transposition of classic lore onto modern descriptive modes, Dietz casts the monotonous awkwardness and imperiling pubescence of middle school as canonically significant and dangerously chimerical. |
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| Physical Description: | 78 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781961897809 1961897806 |