[more poetry]

Reviewed by (Prairie Books NOW - spring 2009)

This fascinating new collection of seven poems about seven famous (or infamous) women -- Myra Hindley, Unity Mitford, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dora Carrington, Carson McCullers, Jane Bowles, and Elizabeth Smart -- and their obsessions or addictions portrays the half-lives that can result when intelligence and talent are not given their full due.