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| ==== Sale of Souls by Adah Isaacs Menken (p.195) ==== | ==== Sale of Souls by Adah Isaacs Menken ==== |
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| | **//The Serpent and the Fire// (p.195)** \\ |
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| {{:omnipoetics:mazeppa.png?nolink&200 |}}[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adah_Isaacs_Menken|Adah Isaacs Menken]], born in 1835, was an American actress, poet, and painter renowned for her daring and nonconfomist persona. She gained fame for her provocative stage performances, most notably in "[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazeppa_(poem)|Mazeppa]]," in which she rode a horse nearly naked. Her postumous poetry collection, //Infelicia//, where the poem //Sale of Souls// belongs, dealt with emotional and psychological challenges, demonstrating her fragility and enthusiasm. Along with her artistic aspirations, Adah Isaacs Menken had a difficult personal life, including many marriages and the loss of her two children. She died in 1868 at the age of 33. | {{:omnipoetics:mazeppa.png?nolink&200 |}}[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adah_Isaacs_Menken|Adah Isaacs Menken]], born in 1835, was an American actress, poet, and painter renowned for her daring and nonconformist persona. She gained fame for her provocative stage performances, most notably in "[[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazeppa_(poem)|Mazeppa]]," in which she rode a horse nearly naked. Her posthumous poetry collection, //Infelicia//, where the poem //Sale of Souls// belongs, dealt with emotional and psychological challenges, demonstrating her fragility and enthusiasm. Along with her artistic aspirations, Adah Isaacs Menken had a difficult personal life, including many marriages and the loss of her two children. She died in 1868 at the age of 33. |
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| Menken published an autobiography titled //Some Notes of Her Life in Her Own Hand//, in 1868 and said she was born in France. She has varying conflicting reports of her birth name, including Marie Rachel Adelaide de Vere Spenser, Adah Bertha Theodore, and Dolores Adios Los Fiertes. In her wiki section on Early Life and Education, it says she had a gift for languages and became fluent in Spanish and French. All the different accounts on her identity, her artistic and performative abilities stand out. With reference to her poetry in general, and //Sale of Souls// in particular, SaF mentions it being "assertively Jewish" in early works and "militantly feminist later on." (198) It also mentions her quote on the poem: | Menken published an autobiography titled //Some Notes of Her Life in Her Own Hand//, in 1868, and said she was born in France. She has varying conflicting reports of her birth name, including Marie Rachel Adelaide de Vere Spenser, Adah Bertha Theodore, and Dolores Adios Los Fiertes. Her wiki section on Early Life and Education says she had a gift for languages and became fluent in Spanish and French. All the different accounts of her identity, her artistic and performative abilities, stand out. Concerning her poetry in general, and //Sale of Souls// in particular, SaF mentions it being "assertively Jewish" in early works and "militantly feminist later on."((Rothenberg, Jerome and Javier Taboada, Serpent and the Fire: Poetries of the Americas from Origins to Present, “Sale of Souls" by Adah Isaacs Menken”, University of California Press, 2024, p. 198)) It also mentions her quote on the poem: |
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| Comments: hoping for the day women will not be under a patriarchal's control anymore. | Comments: hoping for the day women will not be under a patriarchal's control anymore. |
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