I've enjoyed much of her work. But I recently bought "The Throne of Labdacus" and have to say I haven't been able to really get into it. Some nice lines (free verse), but in stasis, like mosquitos in amber. (This may partly be because the whole thing is in present tense--which frankly, in my own quirky view, does NOT lend itself well to narrative.) Perhaps it gets better. I'll have to try again. Still, am not sure if we need a retelling of Oedipus, or at least not a book-length retelling.
Of course, the book-length poem does seem to be all the rage these days. Perhaps it is just that my attention span is too short...
There is a nice section on the alphabet entering Greece, tho.
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