Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal
This book rewrites Ovid’s Metamorphoses to consider rape, memory, voicelessness, loss, and throughout it's about transformation. The title poem calls itself a gloss and is a fragmented set of linked prose poems. There are long narrative poems, sonnets and a few tercet and quatrain stanzaed poems.
Sources are woven into the text itself as epigraphs, direct references, or at the end of the cited section. There are no notes at the end. Quotes are in quotation and sourced at the end of the section or in the lines of the poems.
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