{"product_id":"persephone-in-the-late-anthropocene-poems-by-megan-grumbling","title":"Grumbling, Megan: Persephone in the Late Anthropocene","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePersephone in the Late Anthropocene \u003c\/em\u003eby Megan Grumbling (Acre Books, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 15, 2020\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003ci\u003ePersephone in the Late Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e vaults an ancient myth into the age of climate change. In this poetry collection, the goddess of spring now comes and goes erratically, drinks too much, and takes a human lover in our warming, unraveling world. Meanwhile, Persephone's mother searches for her troubled daughter, and humanity is first seduced by the unseasonable abundance, then devastated by the fallout, and finally roused to act.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis ecopoetic collection interweaves the voices of Persephone, Demeter, and a human chorus with a range of texts, including speculative cryptostudies that shed light on the culture of the \"Late Anthropocene.\" These voices speak of decadence and blame, green crabs and neonicotinoids, mysteries and effigies. They reckon with extreme weather, industrialized plenty, and their own roles in ecological collapse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTonally, the poems of this book range between the sublime and the profane; formally, from lyric verse and modern magical-realist prose poems to New Farmer's Almanac riddles and pop-anthropology texts. At the heart of this varied and inventive collection is story itself, as Demeter deconstructs \"whodunits,\" as the chorus grasps that mythmaking is an act of \"throwing their voices,\" and as their very language mirrors the downward spiral of destruction. Together, the collected pieces of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePersephone in the Late Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e form a narrative prism, exploring both environmental crisis and the question of how we tell it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31573320007703,"sku":"9781946724328","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_35597ff5-2251-4528-bb14-49082135a7dc.jpg?v=1591665425","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/persephone-in-the-late-anthropocene-poems-by-megan-grumbling","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}