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Nicelle Davis s The Walled Wife unearths from the long-standing text The Ballad of the Walled-up Wife, a host of issues that continue to plague women in the contemporary world: the woman s body as sacrifice; the woman s body as tender or currency; the woman s body as disposable; the woman s body as property; the woman s body as aesthetic object; the woman s body unsafe in the world she must inhabit, and in the hands of the people she loves."

Nicelle Davis's powerful debut poetry collection, Circe, masterfully chronicles the complex inner life of this all too human enchantress from Greek mythology. Primarily narrated by Circe herself, the book records her post-Odysseus "withdrawal..". Her laments are interrupted and enriched by a series of poems voiced by a bevy of canny and dangerous sirens. Their incantatory "recipes" produce a provocative admixture of visceral wisdom and sensual bravado... Circe is a deeply moving, endlessly inventive, and enlightening exploration into the terrors of abandonment, the ageless plight of aggrieved...