Posts made in 2003

Diane recommends: Eating in the Underworld

Posted by Mark on Feb 23, 2003 in Book Recommendations, Diane Recommends | 0 comments

Eating in the Underworld by Rachel Zucker (Wesleyan University Press, 2003) Persephone’s diaries and letters to Demeter and Hades. Powerful, evocative, raw, fresh, surprising. Highly recommended — and not only by myself, her Mom, but by contributors to Montserrat Review (“Not since W. C. Williams’ ‘Kora in Hell’ has such originality spilled from this literary legacy”) and Library Journal (“Evocative and mysterious, the poems hint at the...