Bibliography: Eurydice's voice
Orpheus and Eurydice
Ovid Metamorphoses, Book X, translated by Frank
Justus Miller 1916, Loeb Classical Library
Selections from Metamorphoses, read in Latin and
English by Rafi Metz. Approx 4 1/2 hours.
Ovid Illustrated: the Reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses
in Image and Text http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/ovidillust.html
Vast collection of Metamorphoses editions and interpretations.
Helen Sword 1989 "Orpheus and Eurydice in the Twentieth
Century: Lawrence, H.D. and the Poetics of the Turn," Twentieth
Century Literature, 35:4 (Winter 1989), 407-28v
Jonathan Bate 1994 Shakespeare and Ovid Oxford
A.B. Taylor ed 2000 Shakespeare's Ovid Cambridge
Martin West 1983 The Orphic Poems
Suggests early Greek religion was heavily influenced by
Central Asian shamanistism.
Charles Sega 1989 Orpheus: The Myth of the Poet
Johns Hopkins
Philip K. Dick 1981 The divine invasion Pocket
Books
Russell Hoban The Medusa Frequency
Two fine sci fi writers writing with an Orpheus theme.
Love Woman
Daniel Bergner 2009 What do women want? New York Times
magazine January 22, p28
Carol Gilligan 2003 The birth of pleasure: a new map
of love Vintage
Brilliant description of the Love Woman Work Woman
split, using the tale of Eros and Psyche. A foundational book in embodiment
studies.
Estes Clarissa Pinkola 1992 Women who run with the wolves:
myths and stories of the wild woman archetype Ballantine
Handbook on recovering Love Woman. Downright at the same
time as it is mythological in Gilligan's way.
Susan Griffin 1978 Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside
Her Harper and Row
Beautifully written cry against loss of Love Woman in
individuals and cultures. Love Woman and Work Woman wrote it together.
Marianne Williamson 1994 A woman's worth Ballantine
Gloriously subversive instructions for giving Love Woman
a life with integrity. Work Woman hates this book.
Julie Henderson 1999 The Lover Within Station Hill
Groundbreaking work on the bodily energetics of
intimacy, "my increasing systemic capacity for charge, pulsation and
pleasure." "I began to turn my attention directly to what I experienced,
what I liked, what excited me, what satisfied me setting aside all
previous judgments, expectations, and demands." Henderson is unusually
clear and unflakey on this topic, has a PhD. The book is hard to find but
Amazon has it.
Eugene Gendlin 1981 Focusing Bantam
Invaluable simple technique for finding bodily realness.
Andrew Harvey 1991 Hidden journey: a spiritual awakening
Henry Holt
A male poet's apprenticeship to Love Woman.
Sharon Olds 2002 The unswept room Knopf (and any
of her other books)
- If someday, we had to look back
- and tell the best hours of our lives,
- this was one moving my brow
- and nose around, softly, in your armpit
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse and The waves
The former can be thought of as a description of Woolf's
mother seen as Love Woman, and the latter as written by Love Woman herself.
Eva Pierrakos 1990 The Pathwork of Self-Transformation
Bantam
Intelligent guide to the moral work of a difficult love.
Alice Notley 1996 The descent of Alette Penguin
Poets
Epic poem about Love Woman's journey in the underworld,
written in the form of a series of dreams.
HD Helen in Egypt New Directions
Book length poem spoken by Helen of Troy. A hymn to and
from Love Woman.
HD showed a way to penetrate mystery; which means not
to flood darkness with light so that darkness is destroyed, but to enter
into darkness, mystery so that it is experienced. . . .darkness. . .not
evil but the other side . Denise Levertov
In her life's work H.D. returned constantly to a pattern
of personal relationships that she found perplexing and felt to be damaging
to herself and other women; thralldom to males in romantic and spiritual
love. Romantic thralldom is an all-encompassing, totally defining love
between unequals. Viewed from a critical, feminist perspective, the sense
of completion or transformation that often accompanies thralldom in love
has the higher price of obliteration and paralysis, for the entranced self
is entirely defined by another. Rachel Blau DuPlessis
H.D. presents herself as an outsider who must express
her views from a consciously female perspective. Inheriting uncomfortable
male-defined images of women and of history, H.D. responds with palimpsests
of encoded revisions of male myths. she discovers behind the recalcitrant
and threatening signs of her times a hidden meaning that sustains her quest
by furnishing stories of female strength and survival. Susan Gubar
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