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This stunning collection brings together goddess mythologies from
across the globe: familiar, unknown, forgotten -- spectacular!
Written by pioneering storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton, whose
30-year career has focused on researching female protagonists,
these tales are conjured in vivid and poetic language. The book
includes information about the pattern of myths and how they are
represented globally and revels in the female, exploring desire,
death, and the female body. Journey from Alaska to Mesopotamia and
visit ancient Persian and Aztec cultures, meeting Sedna whose
fingertips become sea creatures and Persephone whose sojourn in the
Underworld brings Spring. This is the most significant contemporary
collection of goddess myths and encourages readers to value the
female, preserve culture and re-ignite storytelling traditions.
The Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year 2017 Velkom to Inklandt is
a collection of poems in which Sophie Herxheimer brings to life the
voice of her German Jewish Grent Muzzer Liesel, whose somewhat
abrasive but eminently humane perspektiff she's been unable to
forget. Liesel came to live in Britain in 1938, with her young
family. Her husband was one of many scientists saved by the
speedily set up Council for Academic Refugees. Playing on the
difficulties of the English lenkvitch and vokebulerry, the poems
tell of an immigrant's attempts to fit in and make her home in a
new country at war with her own. This fascinating sequence
addresses alienation, survival, friendship, marriage, motherhood
and loss against a backdrop of a London which has almost
disappeared but at the same time remains straynchly familiar.
Once upon a time, in the Paris of Louis XIV, five ladies and one
gentleman-- all of them aristocrats-- seized on the new enthusiasm
for "Mother Goose Stories" and decided to write some of them down.
Telling stories resourcefully and artfully was a key social grace,
and when they recorded these elegant narratives they consciously
invented the modern fairy tale as we still know it today.
For this beautiful anthology of six masterpiece wonder tales,
Marina Warner gathered five writers with a special sympathy for the
French stories they render here in burnished, cunning and amusing
English. The stories, "The White Cat" (translated by John Ashbery),
"The Subtle Princess" (Gilbert Adair), "Bearskin" and "Starlight"
(Terence Cave), "The Counterfeit Marquise" (Ranjit Bolt), and "The
Great Green Worm" (A.S. Byatt), are as unforgettable today as they
were when first published centuries ago. Wonder is the key to the
stories, and each tale abounds with transformation and magic.
Wonders can be benign (like the garden fruits that come when you
whistle) or baneful (like the bad fairy Magotine's spells),
producing dread and desire at the same time. But, fortunately, they
almost always punish those who deserve it: tyrants, seducers, and
other forces of malevolence.
Heroes and heroines are put to mischievous tests, and their quest
for love is confounded when their objects of desire change into
beasts or monsters. Still, true understanding and recognition of
the person beneath the spell wins in the end, for after wonder
comes consolation, and after strange setbacks comes a happy ending.
In Wonder Tales, a magical world awaits all who dare to enter.
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