The Woman Behind You

By Julie Fay

Julie Fay believes, as she writes in of her poems, that "we are nothing but what we imagine / ourselves to be". In these pages, she has imagined personalities from many parts of the world and the mind. They include characters from Greek and Native American myth as well as from history -- Andromeda and Cassiopeia. Georgia O'Keeffe and a Hungarian countess, the poet's own mother and sisters -- in settings that range from the Grand Canyon to the Grand Canal. Fay examines the lives of women at various stages of life -- as daughter, sister, lover, mother -- while she journeys into both the self and into history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822956829
• ISBN13: 9780822956822
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 81 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 9.1"