Return from Erebus

by Julia McCarthy

Poetry. Erebus, the dark and shadowy outer realm of the Underworld in Greek mythology, becomes a place of transition and becoming in Julia McCarthy's RETURN FROM EREBUS. The poems articulate this darkness with such keen and evocative vision and language that it appears to be made of light; they explore the richness of being, the ephemeral nature of our experience, and its inherent grief, where "jays smash like blue china/flung into the trees/and fly away mending themselves"; and you "hear rain and the river/the sound of water walking on itself again."

Genres: Poetry

112 pages, Paperback

First published August 28, 2010

Reviews

[Monte · Rating 4 out of 5]

somehow both richly internal and intensely physical. poems that made me hum and stare at the trees

[Kraig Grady · Rating 4 out of 5]

Much strength in these words

[Ishita · Rating 3 out of 5]

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