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"In a sequence of terza rima poems, C.J. Sage injects new life into familiar mythology. Odyssea not only relates the tale of Odysseus from a female perspective, but also brings it forward in time, leading to a rich mixture of contemporary reference and technical restraint. Sage is a subtle observer of human behavior and a vivid story teller. This is an imaginative, compelling collection."--Bob Hicok
"Readers of Homer will find C.J. Sage's gender-reversed reworking of The Odyssey twinkling with in-jokes, and will be startled by the ending; but even those unfamiliar with the original will enjoy a rollicking yarn well told. The pithy episodes and jauntily-rhymed terza rima move along at something of the famous brisk clip of the Greek. And there are occasional strokes of satirical brilliance, as when she recasts the utopian Phaeacians as a couple of biologists on the Isle of Kure. It has been speculated, most famously by Samuel Butler in The Authoress of the Odyssey, that the ancient poem, with its domestic concerns and host of powerful queens and goddesses, was written by a woman. I think she would be pleased with this irreverent re-visioning of her ever-modern masterpiece."--A. E. Stallings
