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Simon Perril's new collection is the twin to his Archilochus on the Moon, and continues his exploration of the tangled roots of ancient Greek lyric. A nekyia is an underworld story preserving a rite from classical antiquity wherein the living call up the dead, and are questioned about the future. Neobulé was the bride-to-be of the first lyric poet, Archilochus-until her father inexplicably called it off and incurred the most infamous poetic wrath in literary history. The soldier-poet's scurrilous response shamed the entire family into committing suicide. "Beneath" tracks Neobulé's arrival in Hades; and voices her gradual understanding of shadehood. She may be "a chorus of gasps / no lyre can pluck", but can still recall being "more shade above / in the mud-brick groves / of kitchens".

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Beneath
• Author: Simon Perril
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100
• EAN: 9781848614406
• ISBN: 9781848614406
• ID: 02816423
• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Weight: 146 g
• Dimensions: 139 × 216 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. October 2015

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