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    anOther Mythology
    anOther Mythology
    anOther Mythology
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    anOther Mythology

    By Maxwell I. Gold

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    From Thanatos to Hades, Maxwell I. Gold's book of horror prose poetry reimagines myths from a queer perspective. Gold's poetry merges camp sensibility and cosmic horror in poems that are beautiful, bloody, and barbed. A poetic soap opera of gods and monsters.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInterstellar Flight Press
    Release dateSep 4, 2023
    ISBN9781953736253
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      anOther Mythology - Maxwell I. Gold

      anOther Mythology

      ANOTHER MYTHOLOGY

      Poems

      MAXWELL I. GOLD

      Interstellar Flight Press

      CONTENTS

      anOther Theogony, anOther Mythology

      False Expectations

      I am Death (Thanatos’ Arrogance)

      I am Dead (Hades’ Plea)

      Post-Eros

      No Gods, No Sea Beneath the Waves

      The Moth

      Croesus’ Coin

      Across the Seas, Into the Desert I’d Have You Again

      Where Roots Run Deep

      Phobos Oneiroi: Into the Mouth of Fear

      Endymion the Twink and the Vengeful Moon

      Anti-Orpheus: The Music of Death

      The Clay and Cruel, The Prometheus

      Pangu, the Anti-King

      Below, The Pit

      I Am Yawn

      Blood and Flowers: Saffron Nightmares

      The Fall of Cin

      The Tree of Other (The Other Tree)

      The Graveyard of the Gods

      The Myth of the Closet

      The Myth of the Flood

      Platz, the King of Nothing

      Drag, Queen of the Underworld

      The Chamber of What-If

      As Fate Would Have It

      Hetero Never-After

      Author’s Note: The Myth of Mythology

      About the Author

      About the Cover Artist

      Interstellar Flight Press

      poetry books from Interstellar Flight Press

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      ADVANCE PRAISE FOR ANOTHER MYTHOLOGY

      Loosely based on Hesiod’s Theogeny, Maxwell I. Gold’s anOther Mythology deconstructs traditional mythic narratives and tropes in a defiantly transgressive take on cosmic origin stories. Indeed, the Muses must have conferred Hesiod’s kingly scepter of authority to Gold, and he uses it wisely. Gold fearlessly flings open closet doors, unveils dark deceptions, and reshapes the cosmos to unshackle the stars. A stunning reclamation of Greek myth. —Carina Bissett, award-winning editor of Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas

      Maxwell I. Gold's poetry pulls from the heart and bleeds truth onto the page. —Michael Bailey, multi-award-winning author and editor.

      anOther Theogony, anOther Mythology

      The story never ends. The System came, another god forged in the light of a new universe, nameless to its worshippers but all-too recognizable in the awful cruelties, the normative chains which pulled down beast and god alike as Displacement and Other were soon birthed from that which was unmistakable.

      Displacement followed, the System’s progeny, another child of that wretched pantheon

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