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Padel, Ruth

 
9781784745806: Girl: by Ruth Padel
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1784745804 ISBN 13: 9781784745806
Verlag: Chatto & Windus, 2024

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A fresh and questioning look at girlhood and its icons, unravelling the millennia of myth woven around girls.

'A sensual exploration of two female archetypes' Guardian
'One of our most gifted poets ... This is tender and exquisite poetry' Mona Arshi, author of Small Hands

In Girl, Ruth Padel presents a triptych of interlocking sequences. A moving retelling of the Christian story transforms the Virgin Mary into a girl in a Primark T-shirt, facing a life shaped by divine will. Unearthed from the Cretan labyrinth, a prehistoric Snake Goddess is reshaped at the hands of a male archaeologist.

Between these evocative figures, myth turns personal. Delicately crafted lyrics, sometimes taking adventurous shapes, explore snapshots from the poet’s own life blended with archetypes from India, European fairy tale, ancient Greece and Urban Dictionary: girl as soul, girl as creative energy, girl as the sacred power of nature, vulnerable but unstoppable. ‘Listening to the snowmelt / of the patriarchy’, Girl is an urgent, revelatory work for today.

**A Poetry Book Society Special Commendation**

'Dazzling' Kim Moore, author of All the Men I Never Married
'Beautiful' Linda Gregerson, author of The Selvedge

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ruth Padel is a prize-winning poet, author of twelve acclaimed poetry collections and prose works including much-loved books on reading contemporary poetry, a travel-memoir on wild tiger conservation, and a study of the influence of Greek myth on rock music. Awards include a British Council Darwin Now Award, a Travel Bursary and Cholmondley Award from The Society of Authors, and First Prize in the National Poetry Competition. She is Professor of Poetry at King’s College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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A portrait in verse of two iconic female figures - the Virgin Mary and the Cretan 'snake goddess' - unravelling the millennia of myth men have woven around them.

In Girl, Ruth Padel takes a fresh and questioning look at girlhood and its icons. Across a triptych of interlocking sequences, she unravels the millennia of myth woven around girls.

A moving retelling of the Christian story transforms the Virgin Mary into a girl in a Primark T-shirt, facing a life shaped by divine will. Unearthed from the Cretan labyrinth, a prehistoric Snake Goddess is reshaped at the hands of a male archaeologist.

Between these evocative figures, myth turns personal. Delicately crafted lyrics, sometimes taking adventurous shapes, explore snapshots from the poet's own life blended with archetypes from India, European fairy tale, ancient Greece and Urban Dictionary: girl as soul, girl as creative energy, girl as the sacred power of nature, vulnerable but unstoppable. 'Listening to the snowmelt / of the patriarchy', Girl is an urgent, revelatory work for today.

Reviews:

'One of our most gifted poets turns her gaze to the terrain of girlhood: Padel taps into that unique and beautiful time where all the mystery, wonder and mythmaking fold into each other. This is tender and exquisite poetry.' - Mona Arshi, author of Small Hands

'In these searching, restless poems, Ruth Padel excavates the violence, beauty and danger of girlhood, asking again and again "Who makes you girl? When does it stop?" Formally inventive and with a dazzling control of the lyric line, Padel uses the poem as time travelling machine, examining the acts of resistance that connect girls to the women they will become.' - Kim Moore, author of All the Men I Never Married

'This collection touched many things that have moved me in worlds I thought separate. The female body: what it means for men to look at, and women to inhabit, that maze of underground yearnings that snakes from Knossos to Kerala via Camden. Ruth Padel, Mistress of the Labyrinth, invites the reader to follow her into the dark. And to the light beyond.' - Neil MacGregor, author of Living with the Gods

'Ruth Padel's new work is a dazzling paean to the many phases of Girl - mother to the woman, mother to the Mother, and mother to the Goddess who 'waits like a taproot in the deepest layer of the Cretan earth'. It is also a hymn to the catastrophic beauty of life, to the brave human plunge into 'all that dark involvement without knowing why'. Above all, it is an anthem to innocence, that fragile yet resilient mother of experience and wisdom. Radiant, powerful and deeply moving, these poems celebrate Girl not just as noun, but as ongoing sacred verb.' - Arundhathi Subramaniam, author of Wild Women

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Verlag
Chatto & Windus
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1784745804
ISBN 13 
9781784745806
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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