{"product_id":"out-from-the-pleiades-a-picaresque-novella-in-verse-paperback","title":"Out from the Pleiades: a picaresque novella in verse - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel May\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eLeslie McGrath\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A rollicking, raucous, new myth, a classic...\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A lyrical exploration of how a bully comes into being. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"'Why didn't I get a Barbie Dreamhouse for Christmas?' So asks Mina immediately after wondering if she's a racist because she's white too. Priorities, place and position move our hero from well-meaning child to disconcerted bully, borne by a fear of impotence in the world as she tests her own privileged, small power over others. Out From the Pleiades is a rich romp, chockfull of feel-good details and enough unanswered questions to make anyone secure in their moral center come, a tiny bit, undone. Ride in Mina's 'yolk-colored Subaru' as she toes the surfaces of high school, passing through the stoic suicide of 'Ginger, ' until our war protestor comes full circle to the uncharted depths of 'Yes' in soldier Violet's golden eyes - and discovers the harsher power of love's undoing.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Amy King, poet, \u003ci\u003eI Want to Make You Safe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSlaves To Do These Things\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Leslie McGrath's \u003ci\u003eOut from the Pleiades\u003c\/i\u003e is a hybrid gem, a novella in verse that works utterly both as lyric poetry and as story. The life of protagonist Mina Kali, born to the Seven Sisters - a commune of \"radical warrior women\"--unfolds with an epic sweep, from the moment Mina 'raged forth from the dark red dark' to her final love and loss. \u003ci\u003eOut from the Pleiades\u003c\/i\u003e is a rollicking, raucous, new myth, a classic with its head in Aristophanes and its satiric heart in the 1960s. You will read these poems aloud, laughing, and then find them sneakily haunting you.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Susanne Paola Antonetta, poet \u003ci\u003eThe Lives of the Saints\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of \u003ci\u003eMake Me a Mother: a memoir\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eOut from the Pleiades\u003c\/i\u003e is a revealing character study, the story of \"Mina,\" a bully bred from the excesses of liberal culture. It's a testament to the book's complex vision that we both condemn and ultimately empathize with Mina as she makes her way through the world. It's a master class in the psychology of intimidation, marked by McGrath's signature wit, compassion and insight.\" -Bruce Snider, poet, \u003ci\u003eParadise, Indiana\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Year We Studied Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeslie McGrath\u003c\/b\u003e's interviews with poets appear regularly in \u003ci\u003eThe Writer's Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. Winner of the 2004 Pablo Neruda Prize for poetry, she is the author of \u003ci\u003eOpulent Hunger, Opulent Rage\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), a poetry collection, and two chapbooks: \u003ci\u003eToward Anguish\u003c\/i\u003e (2007) and \u003ci\u003eBy the Windpipe\u003c\/i\u003e (2014.) Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Awl, Agni, The Common, Slate\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She teaches creative writing and literature at Central Connecticut State University, and is series editor of The Tenth Gate, a new poetry imprint of The Word Works press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 74\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.18 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48393788686557,"sku":"9781937543808","price":29.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/i2gYdHB5HI9781937543808.webp?v=1787155603","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/out-from-the-pleiades-a-picaresque-novella-in-verse-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}