The Penelopiad
Check this out!!!
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,,1600872,00.html
(I really don't know why it's not showing up as a link, but just copy/paste it into the browser.)
I've noticed whisperings about how all of Margaret Atwood's poems are about women...well, what I have to say about that is: What's wrong with that?!! The link will take you to an interview with MA about her new book, an interpretation of the Odyssey from Penelope's perspective. I guess this answers the question about all the Greek mythology allusions in many of her poems.
posted by Mrzhire at
6:34 PM
2 Comments:
I have to say, women are painfully underrepresented in the upper crusts of the poetic world. So, kudos for Atwood.
Down with all the anti-femenist comments. pshaw.
Is it just me who can't get to the interview?
Wow. That's a new spin on things.......
This production seems so offbeat...."I think we are always looking for an escape from the well-made play. This is not a play. It's not really even a musical. It's a very unexpected shape." Well i spose that's to be expected when you're interpreting something in a completely backward way; at least in terms of what Homer would have thought.
lol the title itself Atwoodesque. "Penelopiad"? She would...
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