A review by mary_soon_lee
The Doors of the Body by Mary Alexandra Agner

3.0

Summer-reading book review #27: "The Doors of the Body," by Mary Alexandra Agner. This is a poetry chapbook about women, often women from story or mythology, their lives reimagined. All but three of the poems are narrated in the first-person by women ranging from Helen of Troy, to Irene Adler, to Gretel. The poems are slanted, clever--sometimes too clever for me--and beautifully phrased. I admire most of them more than I like them, but there were two that I loved: "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Harvest I Desire."