This translation shows the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' 'Suppliant Women'. Torn between the mothers' lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy, between calls for a just war and grief for the fallen, the play captures the competing poles of the human psyche.

In this stunning first book, Rosanna Warren writes with wisdom, grace, and pure intelligence "as though to seize on a new life." Exploring the complexities of nature and art, she traces continuous travail between the earth--in its tangle of roots and cyclical consolation--and the restless and protesting mind. Thus we encounter the struggle for sustaining generations of life in the villages of Europe, the ruins of Crete, a fresco or bas-relief.

Rosanna Warren's first collection of poetry, Each Leaf Shines Separate, announced the emergence of a fresh voice in contemporary American poetry and earned praise from John Hollander, Richard Eberhart, and Mark Strand. Now, in her second book, Rosanna Warren has fulfilled her promise. In Stained Glass she continues to examine, as John Hollander said of her first book, "the relation of art to nature, exploring the ultimate naturalness of the world of picture, and reading tenderly and shrewdly the forms of fable in which reality presents itself to the passionate gaze." Yet in this volume the...

from "Mediterranean There was something I wanted to say, at the age of twelve, some question she hadn't answered and yesterday, so clearly seeing her pace before m it rose again to the tip of my tongue, and the mystery wa not that she walked there, ten years after her death but that she vanished, and let twilight take her place