Nightingale

"Paisley Rekdal’s poems are equal parts gorgeous minor key music and cold-eyed analysis; she is a thinker who can really sing. This book takes off from the canonical myths of Ovid’s “Metamorphosis,” layering them atop contemporary situations to describe the consequences of violence against women – and to kindle our sense of responsibility to women and their stories. This isn’t easy reading, but why should it be?"