Author(s): Bernadette Mayer

POETRY | NEW DIRECTIONS

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", All the Helens of Troy is Bernadette Mayers's profile of all of the Helens living in Troy, New York, done with poems and images, mixing the classical with the ordinary and delightful intelligence with irreverence.  An excerpt: everybody died there's nothing more to say my hair's braided like a familyi took off, it was fun, i loved it if you did something wrong, they punished you one helen is enough, trust me