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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Killing Orpheus
  name:
    name part: McClatchey, Forester
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: pau
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 81 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: 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.”
  note: Forester McClatchey.
  classification: PS3613.C35763 K55 2026
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9780887487255
  identifier: 0887487254
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250918
    record change date: 20260508163403.5
    record identifier: in00005780701