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Cora
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This is a collection of poems and prose where the footprints of Persephone’s image can be found. Her presence, at times a subtle whisper or quite often an unveiled goddess, reminds us that her myth continues to play with the imagination of the artist.
 
Poetry
The Pomegranate by Eavan Boland
Hades' Pitch by Rita Dove
Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
La Figlia Che Piange by T. S. Eliot
Silence Raving by Clayton Eshleman
A Myth of Devotion by Louise Glück
The Myth of Innocence by Louise Glück
Persephone the Wanderer by Louise Glück
Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever] by John Keats
Canto I by Ezra Pound
The Rape of Proserpina by Ovid
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
Letter [Persephone to Demeter] by Rachel Zucker
 
Prose
Contradictory Classicists: Frank Bidart and Louise Glück by Rosanna Warren
Daughters in Poetry by Eavan Boland
Poems about Daughters
Poems about the Underworld
 
Poets
Dante Alighieri
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sylvia Plath
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