This collection offers myriad fresh, and often dazzling, interpretations of Greek myths at a time of renewed excitement about the role of myths and other archetypes in our culture, and about the spiritual themes which many of the poems suggest. The range is broad, from celebrated authors such as Rita Dove, Louise Gluck, Mark Strand, and Stephen Dobyns, to such respected emerging poets as Diann Blakely, Reginald Shepard, Mary Jo Bang, and Carl Phillips.

When she discovers that she is a Half Blood werewolf and in love with a vampire, young Kalapuya Native American Lakota Avital is forced to choose between her world and his in an attempt to thwart a war of catastrophic proportions between their two rivaling sides.

When she discovers that she is a Half Blood werewolf and in love with a vampire, young Kalapuya Native American Lakota Avital is forced to choose between her world and his in an attempt to thwart a war of catastrophic proportions between their two rivaling sides.