All of the medical, technological, and psychological advances of
the twentieth century challenge "mere mortals" in Terese Svoboda's
third book of poetry. In "Faust," a mini-epic in five acts, the
eponymous character of literary legend appears in the form of a
woman, who redefines what being mortal means in light of the
politics of the Third World, and gender. In contrast "Ptolemy's
Rules for High School Reunions" explores what happens when you do
without a pact with the devil. The gods--Greek and otherwise--also
make appearances as a TV announcer in "Philomela," in the basement
with the plumber in "The Smell of Burning Pennies," and in the
dyslexic confusion between "Dog/God." But it is not only the divine
that charges the poems in "Mere Mortals"--sex also suffuses and
reinvents key relationships. Readers of such wittily probing poems
as "The Root of Father is Fat" and "Brassiere: Prison or Showcase?"
will know why Philip Levine has described Svoboda as "one
light-year from being the polite, loverly, workshop poet.
"Mere Mortals' poems first appeared in such magazines as the "New
Yorker," "New York Times Magazine," "Paris Review," and the
"American Poetry Review."
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