The Strongbox
The Strongbox
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The Strongbox opens with the abduction of a woman to a foreign land and ends with the Rape of Europa. Drawing in elements of Greek mythology, epic literature and recent history, this protean work gives shape to a cast of characters both ancient and modern, as they flit in and out of tales, their voices overlapping and interacting. An unnamed girl is persuaded to leave behind her country and her childhood and travel to a warzone. Helen of Sparta, already trapped behind the walls of Ilium, is plagued by dreams about the coming conflict. Gods continue their manipulations, while mortals persist in defying the will of their gods. Through a series of interconnected scenes and dialogues this singular work traces the role of myth in shaping our accounts of both history and contemporary events.
About the Author
About the Author
Sasha Dugdale has published five previous collections with Carcanet. Her fifth collection Deformations was shortlisted for the 2020 T.S. Eliot Prize and Derek Walcott Prize. Joy (2017) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and the title poem was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2016. She has published numerous translations of Russian-language women's writing, including Maria Stepanova's novel In Memory of Memory (Fitzcarraldo, 2021) which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Weidenfeld Prize, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Dugdale won the MLA Lois Roth Award for this translation. She is former editor of Modern Poetry in Translation, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Strongbox is her sixth Carcanet book (May 2024).
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