Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology

by G.F. Zaimis

Overview

Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology is a verse collection of Greek myths narrated through a series of contemporary parables. A myth isnot a myth but rather reality being enacted everyday. G.F. Zaimis appropriatesportions of Aeschylus' PrometheusBound, Shelley's PrometheusUnbound, synchronistic events and the mundane to explore a dialogue betweenhumanity and the divine through mythology.

Two poetic forms, the sonnet and the newly designed triptych, delineate thebook's mythology. The triptych,inspired by the Homeric epigram, is a poetic hybrid premised upon the visualand literary arts. Its shape distills thought that recounts impressions andincidents as rhythmic, mural imagery in bits of three brushed onto paper.

Each narrative recounts fragments of memory and how life perpetuates theexpansion of individual and social consciousness. It is here mythos and logos come together through the eyes ofpoetry integrated by philosophy.

ISBN13:978-1-938963-34-6 [eBook]
ISBN13: 978-1-938963-33-9 [softcover w/ jacket cover]

Table of Contents

Preface

Sonnet Cycles
Prometheus rebound
Do the gods forsake you, Alexandria?
Divine inquisition

Sonnets
Humanity's delusion
Therapy with Antigone - Session 2
Penelope's quill
Bone oracle
Fanouropita
Ourania
Charon fleeting
Blood omens
Face of Agamemnon
What's in a name?
Parthenon chronicles
Eye of
Language of

Triptychs
Burying twenty
Dark before light
Dogged
Dying
Exaltation
Hands
Intimacy
Lapith woman
Oedipal-Electra
Oneness
Ouroboros
Psyche and soma
Tattered raft
Text as seeds
Time keepers
Tools
Unus mundus
Word's lyre
Yesterday's fate
After the last before the first

Biography
Back Cover - Wyrd worker poem

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157657154
Publisher:	IDEAlab Editions by Blue Scarab Press
Publication date:	02/08/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	70
File size:	532 KB

About the Author

G.F. Zaimis is an American essayist, poet, adviser and photographer who specializes in architectural forms. She is the Arts and Literary Chair for the International Friends of Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Greece), The Library of Alexandria.

Her writing explores the intersections of contemporary modernisms, comparative literature and philosophy to connect multi-disciplinary dialogues with language, mythology, history and quantum theory while uniting the arts and sciences. Her work has been presented at centers for contemporary art, biennials and museums.

She is the author of Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology, Excavated Athens to Alexandria, Monumental Athens Urban, the architect of Portico Convention and the literary Triptych (two new poetic forms) and the co-author of Philosophy and Poetry. Her poetic perspectives have been endorsed by The National Book Critics Circle.

Editorial Reviews

Ginger Zaimis sometimes sounds like Heraclitus – fragmentary, abrupt, vatic and witty. Verses from [Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology] resonate with breathtaking peremptory wisdom such as "I pulled from my head idea's child", "Energy bled from a toss of bones" or "Do you really think you know more now than they did then?"...Remarkable!

Rachel Hadas - Poet, Classicist, Professor, Essayist & Translator

Each word is sculpted into perfect form as architecture itself to fit the necessity of language in [Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology]...The ability to abstract events, leaving the awareness of pain and joy is layered with multiple meaning. The sonnets are experienced as pages of diptychs that converge into triptychs, her new visual and literary, poetic hybrid, shaping abstraction into form, aether to volume, idea from void.

Paolo Colombo - Writer, Art Advisor, ISTANBUL Modern & former Curator, MAXXI

I am in awe of Ginger Zaimis' knowledge of history and mythology, her skill and creativity with form. I love the way she weaves the current with the ancient, the high with the low in [Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology]...so wittily, so gracefully.

Elizabeth J. Coleman - Poet, Translator & Vice President of the Poetry Society of America