The poems of Stone Milk address the way the written word preserves
yet distorts the lives depending on it for fame or survival. Anne
Stevenson's highly engaging new collection opens with A Lament for
the Makers, an experimental sequence based on medieval dream poetry
that plays with a Dante-inspired yet modern, scientific vision of
an underworld of poets. This is followed by a series of shorter
poems, mostly related to ageing and the prospect (even the comfort)
of dying. The Myth of Medea ends the book on a note both stoic and
merry, despite its frank look at the reality of death. Stevenson
rewrites the myth as an 'entertainment' to be set to music - her
own original take on how ancient, classical stories are
reinterpreted by societies that inherit and retell them.
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