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She Who Lies Above
Beatriz Hausner
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In She Who Lies Above, Beatriz Hausner brings Hypatia of
Alexandria, the fourth century Byzantine mathematician, astronomer,
and philosopher, to life. She does so through layered
ventriloquism: publishing amorous correspondence from the feminist
icon's friend and former student, Synesius the Cyrene, and scribing
Hypatia's replies in turn. These letters are "discovered" by
Bettina Ungaro, a librarian and archivist by day, poet by night.
She, in turn, collates the correspondence to build a vision of the
couple's relationship while writing a kind of postmodern critique
of contemporary book and reading culture. These interjections both
borrow from and juxtapose writing from ancient times, and, in doing
so, explore the evolution of modern knowledge keeping. The result
is a rigorous, hyper-layered collection of poems that are elegiac
and erotic; steeped in appreciation for a life of books and the
technical and transcendent brilliance their authors can exhibit.
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