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What if Demeter, the timeless fertility goddess of ancient Greek myth, slipped through a crack into the twenty-first century, shook off her ankle bracelets, corn tassels, and garlands, and began a tour of our improbable culture? Award-winning poet Susan McCaslin exercises the profound mother-daughter trauma forged in the Demeter-Persephone myth with unapologetic modernity. This sequence takes on a novel life all its own: Hades steals away the maiden into a cult/culture of distorted body image, addiction, high anxiety, and rampant consumerism. Mother Demeter must negotiate this alien world of health clubs, paparazzi, and so-called reality shows locked in spiritual winter. McCaslin's lyrics are by turns profound, hilarious, and devastating as she journeys to the heart of a mother's love for her daughter. Here is poetry that seeks ties to the past inside the present, poetry that speaks to us all.

Demeter --- Demetra --- 得墨忒耳 --- デーメーテール --- דמטר --- 데메테르 --- Деметра --- Дэмэтра --- Дэметра --- دمتر --- ديميتر --- Δαμάτηρ --- Δημήτηρ --- Δήμητρα --- Ceres --- Poetry / Canadian Literature.

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Demeter (Greek deity) --- Persephone (Greek deity) --- Déméter (Divinité grecque) --- Perséphone (Divinité grecque) --- Cult --- Culte --- Turkey --- Turquie --- Shrines --- Demeter --- Persephone --- İzmir (Turkey) --- Religion --- Antiquities --- Déméter (Divinité grecque) --- Perséphone (Divinité grecque) --- Demeter, --- Perséphone --- Sacred space --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Kore --- Parsefuna --- Persefona --- Persefone --- Persefono --- Pertsefone --- Persefoneh --- Perusepone --- Perszephoné --- Perzefona --- Poersaifunie --- ペルセポネー --- פרספונה --- 페르세포네 --- Персефона --- پرسفونه --- برسفون --- Περσεφόνη --- Κόρη --- Proserpina --- Demetra --- 得墨忒耳 --- デーメーテール --- דמטר --- 데메테르 --- Деметра --- Дэмэтра --- Дэметра --- دمتر --- ديميتر --- Δαμάτηρ --- Δημήτηρ --- Δήμητρα --- Ionia (Turkey and Greece) --- Religion. --- Antiquities. --- Ceres --- Turkey.

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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in the late seventh or early sixth century B.C.E., is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. The poem tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother, Demeter, the goddess of grain, forced the gods to allow Persephone to return to her for part of each year. Helene Foley presents the Greek text and an annotated translation of this poem, together with selected essays that give the reader a rich understanding of the Hymn's structure and artistry, its role in the religious life of the ancient world, and its meaning for the modern world.

Hymns, Greek (Classical) --- Demeter (Greek deity) in literature. --- Eleusinian mysteries in literature. --- Demeter (Greek deity) --- Translations into English. --- History and criticism. --- Poetry. --- Demeter (Greek deity) in literature --- Eleusinian mysteries --- Hymnes grecs anciens --- Eleusis, Mystères d' --- Hymn to Demeter. --- Eleusis, Mystères d' --- Eleusinian mysteries in literature --- Poetry --- History and criticism --- Translations into English --- Homeric hymns --- Homeric hymn to Demeter --- Homeric hymns. --- Hymnos eis Dēmētra --- Inni omerici --- Homērikoi hymnoi --- Hymni Homerici --- Traductions anglaises --- Histoire et critique --- Demeter --- In literature. --- Demetra --- 得墨忒耳 --- デーメーテール --- דמטר --- 데메테르 --- Деметра --- Дэмэтра --- Дэметра --- دمتر --- ديميتر --- Δαμάτηρ --- Δημήτηρ --- Δήμητρα --- Ceres --- Hymns, Greek (Classical) - Translations into English --- Hymns, Greek (Classical) - History and criticism. --- Demeter (Greek deity) - Poetry.

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A continuation of Josephine Donovan's exploration of American women's literary traditions, begun with New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, which treats the nineteenth-century realists, this work analyzes the writing of major women writers of the early twentieth century—Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Ellen Glasgow.The author sees the Demeter-Persephone myth as central to these writers' thematics, but interprets the myth in terms of the historical transitions taking place in turn-of-the-century America. Donovan focuses on the changing relationship between mothers and daughters—in particular upon the ";new women's"; rebellion against the traditional women's culture of their nineteenth-century mothers (both literary and literal). An introductory chapter traces the male-supremacist ideologies that formed the intellectual climate in which these women wrote.Reorienting Wharton, Cather, and Glasgow within women's literary traditions produces major reinterpretations of their works, including such masterpieces as Ethan Frome, Summer, My Antonia, Barren Ground, and others.

American fiction --- Mothers and daughters in literature. --- Myth in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Demeter --- Persephone --- Wharton, Edith, --- Cather, Willa, --- Glasgow, Ellen, --- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, --- Glazgou, Ėllen, --- Glāzgova, E. --- Glāzgova, Elena, --- Katėr, Villa, --- Cather, Willa Sibert, --- Cather, Wilella, --- Catherová, Willa, --- קאתר, וילה, --- Kāz̲ar, Vīlā, --- Kāz̲ir, Vīlā, --- کاذر، ويلا --- Jones, Edith Newbold --- Olivieri, David, --- Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones, --- Уортон, Эдит, --- Gouorton, Intith, --- Kore --- Parsefuna --- Persefona --- Persefone --- Persefono --- Pertsefone --- Persefoneh --- Perusepone --- Perszephoné --- Perzefona --- Poersaifunie --- ペルセポネー --- פרספונה --- 페르세포네 --- Персефона --- پرسفونه --- برسفون --- Περσεφόνη --- Κόρη --- Proserpina --- Demetra --- 得墨忒耳 --- デーメーテール --- דמטר --- 데메테르 --- Деметра --- Дэмэтра --- Дэметра --- دمتر --- ديميتر --- Δαμάτηρ --- Δημήτηρ --- Δήμητρα --- In literature. --- Characters. --- Ceres