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A review by joannemerriam
The Doors of the Body by Mary Alexandra Agner
5.0
[Full disclosure: Although we've never met, I know Agner slightly online from poetry communities we both belong to, and we will be doing a reading together in Nashville in March, where she will be promoting her new book The Scientific Method.]
This is an engaging book of poems which retell mythological stories and folk tales from the point of view of various female characters within the stories. I think any fan of these sorts of retellings will enjoy this book, even if they don't normally read much poetry. Agner is an accomplished poet, but in a very accessible vein. Mayapple Press has posted a sample (a wonderfully bittersweet retelling of the folk ballad "Oh My Darling, Clementine"), which will give some sense of Agner's lovely way with language.
This is an engaging book of poems which retell mythological stories and folk tales from the point of view of various female characters within the stories. I think any fan of these sorts of retellings will enjoy this book, even if they don't normally read much poetry. Agner is an accomplished poet, but in a very accessible vein. Mayapple Press has posted a sample (a wonderfully bittersweet retelling of the folk ballad "Oh My Darling, Clementine"), which will give some sense of Agner's lovely way with language.