The Throne of Labdacus
by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
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A compelling, lyric telling of the story of Oedipus and of "what happens outside the play," through the experience of the god who is its presiding oracle: Apollo, the god of poetry, music, and healing. Given the task of setting the Sophocles text to music, the god is woven reluctantly into its world of riddles, unanswered questions, partially disclosed objects, and ambiguous secondhand reports-a world where the gods, as much as humans, are subject to the binding claims of fate and necessity.Tags
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Supernatural Love is better . . . this is a bit too allusion-heavy (or elitist) for me. Although that's Schnackenberg's bag, it's more overdone here.
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Gjertrud Schnackenberg was born in Tacoma, Washington. She received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. (Bowker Author Biography)
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