Erou

Maya Phillips

• Publisher: Four Way Books
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781945588389
• eBook ISBN:
  9781945588587
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: American Poetry
• Index: Literature

Maya Phillips' stunning debut collection Erou borrows the framework of the traditional Greek epic to interrogate the inner workings of a present-day nuclear family and the role of a patriarch whose life, marriage, and death are imagined as a sort of hero's journey. Her poems move seamlessly between the worlds of the living and the dead, between myth and reality in a journey that raises its own Homeric question: What is home and how do we locate our place within that home? These are poems of passion and compassion in their reconciliation with what cannot be changed—but can be understood—by those who have been left behind.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Augury
• Erou i.
• 23 Madison Avenue
• Erou I.
• Erou II.
• Underground
• Erou III.
• January 3, 2015
• At the Doctor’s Office
• Ode to My Father’s Failed Heart
• Erou IV.
• Offering
• Hades, Hosting
• Erou V.
• Erou VI.
• Anniversary Argonautica
• A List of Things That Don’t Escape Her
• Daddy says
• Famous Last Words
• Persephone, in Part
• Erou VII.
• Erou VIII.
• Of Late
• Haunt
• Erou IX.
• Erou X.
• Losing His Cool
• Ode to My Father’s Failed Kidney
• Erou XI.
• Erou XII.
• The Woman
• Erou XIII.
• Dido
• Sometimes my father is a roaming hunger
• The Woman, Too, Has Something to Say
• Erou XIV.
• Persephone, Engaged
• Erou XV.
• In Consideration of Love
• Circe
• Erou XVI.
• Hades, Artificer
• Erou XVII.
• Persephone, Rising
• Autopsy
• The Kindly Ones
• Currency
• After His Death Will My Father Be Beautiful
• At the Therapist’s Office
• And/Or
• Erou XVIII.
• A Kind of Temperament
• Alecto
• Unconditional
• Erou XIX.
• In Which My Mother and Father Meet for Brunch After His Death
• Say
• Revision
• Telemachus
• Poem Ending with a Scene of a Woman Alone
• Argo
• Ending
• Nepenthe
• Erou XX.
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author