H of H Playbook World Poetry Books sprak tot je zoals nu

sprak tot je zoals nu en zei –

Charles Baudelaire

who wishes to live openly and think fearlessly in the modern world

exhibiting the startling imagery and dramatic play for which she became known

In this case

H of H Playbook World Poetry Books sprak tot je zoals nuAnne Carson H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th century BC poet Euripides. In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous Labors of Herakles) to find he cannot adapt himself to a life of peacetime domesticity. He goes berserk and murders his whole family. Suicide is his next idea.