The Doors of the Body

Poetry. Mary Alexandra Agner's THE DOORS OF THE BODY travels through ancient Greek mythology to more recent folk tales to ascertain and exclaim in the vatic, sometimes fierce voices of women: Athena, Gretel, Sleeping Beauty and even darling Clementine. Rangy originality and deep curiosity drive these poems into unexpected places. Its insightful reimaginings and scrupulous investitures of archetypes and myths are depth-redemptive, and invoke us to fresh encounters with the repressed energies of nature and time.