Entering the Mare - Softcover

Donovan, Katie

3.83

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852244291 ISBN 13: 9781852244293

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1998

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In Entering the Mare, Katie Donovan leads the reader into a world both mythic and contemporary, where the female principle is raped, defiled, destroyed, and devoured, only to rise again through the insistence of living folklore and the depth of the poet's need to find and re-create the goddess in all her aspects: triumphant, cruel, passive, fertile, and ever resilient.

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The second book of poems by the young Irish journalist isnt as full of bodily functions and sexy paganism as her first (Watermelon Man, 1993), and thats a relief, though Donovan still personalizes her more political verse about hunger strikes (Strike), greed (Hunger at Doolough) and toxic waste (Out of Her Clay). Her body now plodding, the poet wants a lover to feel her absence (Year On), begins eating to fill the void left by another (Sweet Woman), and discovers the iciness of her lovers heart (Warm Hand, Cold Heart). Something of a goddess-worshipping feminist, Donovan rages against breast implants (Making Shapes), harbors carnal thoughts for a celibate monk (Report), and celebrates the mythical woman who runs faster than horses (Machas Curse). Strong women include her great aunt (who would have been burned as a witch in New England); an ancestor who was part Iroquois (Totem); and St.Gobnait, the patron saint of masturbation, apparently (Gobnaits Shrine). Donovans trite phrases (two ripe melons for breasts; the big apple for NYC) indicate her general inattention to detailshe sacrifices language for visceral appeal. -- Copyright �1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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