Agrippina the Younger: Poems
Autor Diana Arterianen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iun 2025
Agrippina the Younger follows one woman’s study of another, separated by thousands of miles and two millennia but bound by a shared sense of powerlessness. Agrippina was a daughter in a golden political family, destined for greatness—but she hungered for more power than women were allowed. Exhausted by the misogyny of the present, Diana Arterian reaches into the past to try to understand the patriarchal systems of today. In lyric verse and prose poems, she traces Agrippina’s rise, interrogating a life studded with intrigue, sex, murder, and manipulation. Arterian eagerly pursues Agrippina through texts, ruins, and films, exhuming the hidden details of the ancient noblewoman’s life. These poems consider the valences of patriarchy, power, and the archive to try to answer the question: How do we recover a woman erased by history?
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810148413
ISBN-10: 0810148412
Pagini: 124
Ilustrații: 4 b&w halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Curbstone Books 2
ISBN-10: 0810148412
Pagini: 124
Ilustrații: 4 b&w halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Curbstone Books 2
Notă biografică
DIANA ARTERIAN is the author of the poetry collection Playing Monster :: Seiche and has twice been a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, The Georgia Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. A poetry editor for Noemi Press, Arterian writes The Annotated Nightstand column at Lit Hub. She lives in Los Angeles.
Recenzii
Named a Best Poetry Collection of 2025 by Electric Literature and Ms. Magazine
“Through Arterian’s careful study and poetics, all of us have the chance to troop down history’s back staircases, trying at once to preserve the dusty footprints underfoot and to make our own marks . . . History and the dead demand our time, rage, ambition, and attention, and this is ultimately the voice that Agrippina the Younger amplifies with fury and grace.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“These poems are meticulously researched, and what emerges is deft alchemy. In Arterian’s vision, women have ferocious agency. This is the reclamation of a woman overlooked.” —BOMB
“Arterian plumbs historical accounts and museums for relics of Agrippina . . . [her] poems imagine lost moments from Agrippina’s life, offer prose snippets of the immersive research process, and meditate on the elusive nature of power. ” —Electric Literature
“[This] grand and beguiling collection both receives and resists the epic stylistic as it traces Agrippina as person, figure, and remainder. No detail is wasted in Arterian’s eye and no use is impossible; the past echoes into the present and future in eerie, bodily ways.” —Poetry Northwest
“A moving extended meditation on how we attempt to understand our relationship to the historical past. Arterian offers the reader an echo of the explorations that have come before, the complexities, paradoxes, and inadequacies of ‘making do’ with the history we have.” —Mary-Kim Arnold, author of The Fish The Dove
“Diana Arterian was my classmate. With Agrippina the Younger, with both its elegance and courage to embrace the history of our darkness—and with such aesthetic muscularity—I am learning from her still. By stepping toward, instead of running from, the ancient histories of women-hatred, Arterian somehow excavates these legacies with a language and lyricism that holds our horror and beauty in sublime balance. 'She does not look away . . .'” —Robin Coste Lewis, author of To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
“In exquisitely braided prose and verse, Diana Arterian gives us an enthralling study of the often maligned and more often overlooked Agrippina the Younger. Necessarily suspicious and critical of official narratives, Arterian dares to “pluck the thread” of time-worn accounts passed down to us from patriarchy. In this stunningly lyrical book—rigorously researched and rigorously imagined—we hear history as lies but also lyre: an instrument, in Arterian’s hands, attentively tuned and pitch perfect with song.” —Brandon Som, author of Tripas: Poems
“Through Arterian’s careful study and poetics, all of us have the chance to troop down history’s back staircases, trying at once to preserve the dusty footprints underfoot and to make our own marks . . . History and the dead demand our time, rage, ambition, and attention, and this is ultimately the voice that Agrippina the Younger amplifies with fury and grace.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“These poems are meticulously researched, and what emerges is deft alchemy. In Arterian’s vision, women have ferocious agency. This is the reclamation of a woman overlooked.” —BOMB
“Arterian plumbs historical accounts and museums for relics of Agrippina . . . [her] poems imagine lost moments from Agrippina’s life, offer prose snippets of the immersive research process, and meditate on the elusive nature of power. ” —Electric Literature
“[This] grand and beguiling collection both receives and resists the epic stylistic as it traces Agrippina as person, figure, and remainder. No detail is wasted in Arterian’s eye and no use is impossible; the past echoes into the present and future in eerie, bodily ways.” —Poetry Northwest
“A moving extended meditation on how we attempt to understand our relationship to the historical past. Arterian offers the reader an echo of the explorations that have come before, the complexities, paradoxes, and inadequacies of ‘making do’ with the history we have.” —Mary-Kim Arnold, author of The Fish The Dove
“Diana Arterian was my classmate. With Agrippina the Younger, with both its elegance and courage to embrace the history of our darkness—and with such aesthetic muscularity—I am learning from her still. By stepping toward, instead of running from, the ancient histories of women-hatred, Arterian somehow excavates these legacies with a language and lyricism that holds our horror and beauty in sublime balance. 'She does not look away . . .'” —Robin Coste Lewis, author of To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
“In exquisitely braided prose and verse, Diana Arterian gives us an enthralling study of the often maligned and more often overlooked Agrippina the Younger. Necessarily suspicious and critical of official narratives, Arterian dares to “pluck the thread” of time-worn accounts passed down to us from patriarchy. In this stunningly lyrical book—rigorously researched and rigorously imagined—we hear history as lies but also lyre: an instrument, in Arterian’s hands, attentively tuned and pitch perfect with song.” —Brandon Som, author of Tripas: Poems
Descriere
Agrippina the Younger follows one woman’s study of another, separated by thousands of miles and two millennia but bound by a shared sense of powerlessness. In lyric poems and prose, Arterian grapples with the violence of patriarchy, past and present.