Beginning with O
Olga Broumas
Yale University Press
Broumas' first collection of poems, Beginning with O, was considered groundbreaking in its depiction of explicit lesbian sexuality. This is a poetry book of letting go, of wild avowals, 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.