Imaginative and uninhibited, Beginning with O is the 72nd volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets

This is a book of letting go, of wild avowals, of unabashed eroticism; at the same time it is a work of integral imagination, steeped in the light of Greek myth that is part of the poet's heritage and imbued with an intuitive sense of dramatic conflicts and resolutions, high style, and musical form.

Olga Broumas is a Greek poet, Professor Emerita of the Practice of English at Brandeis University, and founder of Freehand, Inc., a school for female artists.