Selene: Poems by Michael Odom

Have all your lovers been Gods or Goddesses? Do you recognize the romance of your life in the Romance of novels, movies or easy poetry? In the tradition of Catullus through Plutarch and Sydney through Shakespeare, Odom's poems celebrate a woman whose "eyes are nothing like the sun". As Catullus' Lesbia, Selene is disloyal, angry, often lies, and loves less than she enjoys a poet. But there is no better love for a poet to find in this world.