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Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

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Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

Monster Verse: Poems Human and Inhuman brings to life a colorful menagerie of fantastical creatures from across the ages.

Humans have always defined themselves by imagining the inhuman; the gloriously gruesome monsters that enliven our literary legacy haunt us by reflecting our own darkest possibilities. The poems gathered here range in focus from extreme examples of human monstrousnessâ€”murderers, cannibals, despotic Byzantine empressesâ€”to the creatures of myth and nightmare: dragons, sea serpents, mermaids, gorgons, sirens, witches, and all sorts of winged, fanged, and fire-breathing grotesques. The ghastly parade includes Beowulfâ€™s Grendel, Homerâ€™s Circe, William Morrisâ€™s Fafnir, Lewis Carrollâ€™s Jabberwock, Robert Lowellâ€™s man-eating mermaid, Oriana Ivyâ€™s Baba Yaga, Thom Gunnâ€™s take on Jeffrey Dahmer, and Shakespeareâ€™s hybrid creature Caliban, of whom Prospero famously concedes, â€œThis thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.â€

Monster Verse is both a delightful carnival of literary horror and an entertainingly provocative investigation of what it means to be human.
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2015-09-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375712401

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