King of a Hundred Horsemen

by Marie Étienne

Book Overview

Marie ?tienne's poetry is inspired by the synthesis of the contemporary and the classical, the tragic and the mundane--the quotidian transformed by the tragic prisms of myth and history. Through a profound and complex reinterpretation of the sonnet form, the book reflects, as in a mosaic of shattered mirrors, many of the writer's ongoing preoccupations: the relationship of East and West; an eroticism at once physical and cerebral; the interaction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374531927
• ISBN13: 9780374531928
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"