Out of a mere handful of facts known about the life of a lyric poet so famous in her lifetime (or shortly after it) that she was known as the 10th Muse and from the bare thousand or so lines left to us out of nine volumes of collected works, Peggy Ullman Bell has distilled an appropriately lyrical novel of the life of the woman known as The Poetess (as Homer was known simply as The Poet). more
Megan Campisi's The Widow Spy imagines a female battle of wills in Civil
War-era Washington, DC
-
Beginning on August 23, 1861, a consequential Civil War battle is being
fought inside a well-appointed home in Washington, DC. On one side are
former mill...
4 days ago
What a great review, (another!), you must be very proud, and rightly so.
ReplyDelete