In June the Labyrinth (e-book) (used book) | Cynthia Hogue | bookbook.eu

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In her stunning ninth collection of poetry, In June the Labyrinth, Cynthia Hogue tells a deeply personal lyric of love and loss through a mythic story. This book-length serial poem follows Elle, a dying woman, as she travels a trans-historical, trans-geographical terrain on a quest to investigate the labyrinth not only as myth and symbol, but something akin to the labyrinth of the broken heart. At the heart of Elle s individual story is the earnest female pilgrim's journey, full of disappointment but also hard-won wisdom and courage inspired by Hogue s own composited experience with loss, in particular the death of her mother. Rooted in the idea of the labyrinth as a symbol for life, as in the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe that Hogue would visit the summer of her mother s death, these poems above all distill, fracture, recompose, and tell only partially literally in parts but also in loving detail the story of a life.