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New Directions (paperback, 02/25/2020)
* New & Noteworthy:Anne Carsonwrites in her new versedrama,Norma Jeane Baker of Troy(New Directions): The economy of ancient Greece, like that of early modern America, depended on the institution of slavery. And warfare was a factory for the production of slaves. Originally staged in the spring of 2019 at the Sheds Griffin Theatre in New York, starring actor Ben Whishaw and soprano ReneFleming,Norma Jeane Bakerdissects beauty and femininity atop a world ruled by men. Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy collide to become the protagonist ofa mythabout the perils of vanity and the weaponization ofaesthetics, in whichtablet-like history lessons, such ashow to strike through Bronze Age armor with precision or how to control the optics of war through PR strategies, help to anchor the reader.Norma Jeane Baker of Troyis a whirlwind of a book that expertly complicatesthen decimatesa lexicon historically steeped inviolence against women.
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