Poetry. WHAT PENELOPE CHOOSES is a rare combination of heart, heft, and technical brilliance. The voice is sure as it moves us through this old and familiar tale, both accounting for and challenging everything we think we know about what happened, what it meant, and who the telling serves.--Lauren K. Alleyne

Jeanne Larsen's first book, James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita, won the AWP award in poetry. She has published WHAT PENELOPE CHOOSES, WHY WE MAKE GARDENS [& OTHER POEMS], four novels, and two collections of translations of poetry by women of Tang- era China. The recipient of grants and awards from the Japan/US Friendship commission, the NEA, the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, and others, she teaches in the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University.