Maria Zoccola Helen of Troy, 1993

About the author:

Maria Zoccola is a poet and educator from Memphis. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University, and has spent many years leading creative writing workshops for middle and high school youth. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Ploughshares, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere, and has received a special mention for the Pushcart Prize. Helen of Troy, 1993 is her debut poetry collection.

About the book:

Part myth retelling, part character study, the poetry collection Helen of Troy, 1993 reimagines the Homeric Helen as a dissatisfied housewife in the hills of small-town Tennessee in the early 1990s. In poems with settings ranging from Chuck E. Cheese to football games to the bathroom of a Motel 6, Helen comes of age, marries the wrong man, gives birth to a child she may not be ready to parent, and begins an affair that throws her whole life and future into chaos.

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