Remembering Medusa Remembering by Monique Chénier
From behind the familiar depiction of Medusa—the snake-haired Gorgon whose gaze can turn you to stone—another story is emerging, of an ancient injustice, of the head dominating the body, of modern knowledge overcoming ageless wisdom.
On facing pages, in alternating classical Sapphic fragments and contemporary prose poetry, Medusa “re-members” herself and ushers us into a story long forgotten.
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Book Details
September, 2007
ISBN 1-896350-24-0, 978-1-896350-24-0
91pp. softcover
Price $14.00
Cover image from the sculpture Medusa Revisioned by Cydra Vaux. See her work at www.womansculpture.com
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About the Author
Monique Chénier lives in Timmins where she has been teaching high school English and Creative Writing for almost twenty years. She edits the magazine Art Express. Monique's poetry has been published in Northern Prospects: An Anthology of Northeastern Ontario Poetry edited by Roger Nash (Your Scrivener Press, 1998), in Licking Honey Off a Thorn: An Anthology of Poems From the Ontario Division of The League of Canadian Poets (W)rites Of Spring 1998 edited by Roger Nash (Catchfire Press, 1998), as well as in Neo Verse: Northeastern Ontario Poetry by Monique Chénier, Melanie Marttila, and Natalie Wilson (Your Scrivener Press, 1998). In 1999 and 2000 ...like lemmings... (poetry over the edge), a Sudbury journal, published more of her poetry.