WALDMAN, Anne. The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket. 260x180x65mm. 1013pp. New / New.

The Iovis Trilogy, Waldman's monumental feminist epic, traverses epochs, cultures, and genres to create a visionary call to poetic arms. Iovis details the misdeeds of the Patriarch, and with a fierce imagination queries and subverts his warmongering. All of Waldmanís themes come into focus -- friendship, motherhood, politics, and Buddhist wisdom. This is epic poetry that goes beyond the old injunction to "include history" -- its effort is to change history.