Demeter Goes Skydiving

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 ima...