Blood Sonnets

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In these exquisite finely wrought sonnets-twenty jewel-like portraits of famous female figures-</span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Elizabeth Hodges</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> plumbs the depths of a dazzling range of feeling from the emotional torrents of rage and fear to the keenly observed sensations of artistic creation and enchantment. A meditation on themes of female oppression and empowerment </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Blood Sonnets </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>incarnates and transforms the voices of twenty female figures from the famous and infamous (Catherine the Great; Lizzie Borden) to the mythic and mysterious (Athena; Jane Doe) bringing to life a panoply of intense experience in crisp vivid miniature. By turns fierce heartfelt sly and haunting these poems illuminate as they interrogate and offer a fresh nuanced perspective on history a woman's place and the human condition itself.</span></p><p></p><p></p>