{"product_id":"purl-9798888388976","title":"purl","description":"\u003cp\u003eUsing a mixture of poetic forms varying in subject, shape, style, and size, purl reimagines timeless myths from Homer's Odyssey. Stitched from classical translations, this poignant collection from Michele Evans, resurrects feminine forces from ancient Greek mythology and relocates them in modern portraits and landscapes, pastoral and urban. Invoking Phillis Wheatley Peters as her muse, Evans amplifies a chorus of the marginalized: queens and maidens, mothers and daughters, wives and mistresses, goddesses and slaves, \"muffled voices rarely heard.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvans, Michele:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Michele Evans, a fifth-generation Washingtonian (D.C.), is a writer, teacher, and adviser for Unbound, an award-winning Northern Virginia high school literary magazine. This Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee studied at Smith College, King's College London, and the Graduate School at the University of Maryland. Her poems have appeared in Artemis Journal, The ASP Bulletin, Maryland Literary Review, Mid-Atlantic Review, Spoken Black Girl Magazine, Yellow Arrow Journal, Zora's Den, and elsewhere. This Watering Hole fellow and Teacher Consultant for the Northern Virginia Writing Project lives online at www.awordsmithie.com. purl is her first poetry collection.","brand":"Finishing Line Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181903184146,"sku":"9798888388976","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9caf5812-67ea-4da8-9939-5f86294677cd.jpg?v=1748722277","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/purl-9798888388976","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}