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    Persephone's Affliction
    Persephone's Affliction
    Persephone's Affliction
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    Persephone's Affliction

    By Michelle Augello-Page

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    Persephone's Affliction is a collective arc of poems and illustrations, a journey into the dark landscape of the heart, illuminated and inspired by mythology, psychology, the Tarot, and the life/death/life cycle of love relationships.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateOct 5, 2015
    ISBN9781329600928
    Persephone's Affliction
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    Michelle Augello-Page

    Michelle Augello-Page writes poetry, erotica, and dark fiction. Her work has appeared in art galleries, online journals, print publications, anthologies, e-books, and audio formats. Her book of collected stories, Into the Woods, was published in March 2014 by Oneiros Books.

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      Persephone's Affliction - Michelle Augello-Page

      Persephone's Affliction

      Persephone’s Affliction

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      poems & illustrations

      Michelle Augello-Page

      Copyright © 2015 by Michelle Augello-Page

      Digital Edition © 2015

      Michelle Augello-Page

      asserts the moral right to be

      identified as the author of this work.

      Illustrations by Michelle Augello-Page

      ISBN 978-1-329-60092-8

      Notes and Acknowledgements

      Persephone is a goddess of spring. After her abduction by Hades, she becomes his wife and the queen of the underworld. (Greek mythology)

      Hades is the king of the underworld and god of the dead in Greek mythology.

      His body, the sun was published in Feather Lit and references the Greek myth of Icarus & the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Bruegel.

      Astronavigation was published in Bare Hands Poetry.

      He entered this lost empire and How we love were published in Nefarious Ballerina.

      Requiem references the line wrecked, solitary, here - part of Emily Dickinson’s poem, I felt a funeral, in my brain.

      "Hallowed art

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