Orpheus & Persephone

By Wayne McNeil

In Orpheus & Persephone Suite, Wayne McNeil invites ancient myth into the digital age, reimagining the classic tale of love and loss through the flicker of dial-up connections, whispered lyrics, and the silence between seasons. These poems are not retellings-they are aftershocks, echoing through message boards, caf tables, and the quiet ache of memory.

Here, Persephone logs on from underground in Ohio. Orpheus plays grunge music on a lyre. Demeter sips coffee, speaking of survival. The underworld becomes a metaphor for longing, missteps, and the bravery of walking forward without certainty.

Blending the mythic with the modern, the lyrical with the intimate, McNeil's suite and surrounding poems give voice to grief, reinvention, and the strange, beautiful ways we carry one another through time. For anyone who has loved across a distance-of years, of silence, of realms-this book is a song sent out into the dark, hoping to be heard.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FXWPF99C
• ISBN13: 9798289714060
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"