Loose Strife (Pitt Poetry Series)

Loose Strife (Pitt Poetry Series)

<div>In poems initially inspired by Aeschylus’ fifth-century B.C. trilogy “The Oresteia,” which chronicles the fall of the House of Atreides, <I>Loose Strife</I> investigates the classical sense of loose strife, namely “to loose battle” or “sow chaos,” a concept which is still very much with us more than twenty-five hundred years later.</div>