Penelope's Design: Fourteen Poems

by David Havird

The title poem, which for Anthony Hecht is "a truly great success in its knitting together of the modern scene, recent history, and Homeric myth," finds a wizened Penelope hawking embroidery to tourists. Another recalls the death of Marilyn Monroe--how it awakened the sexual consciousness of a boy for whom her spirit became the scent of cured tobacco. An odyssey whose settings range from the Carolinas to Crete, from the Romsdal Fjord to the Buffalo...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 193389637X
• ISBN13: 9781933896373
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Texas Review Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.3" x 8.3"