And Aeneas Stares Into Her Helmet - Paperback

by Tiffany Higgins (Author)

Winner of the 2008 Carolina Wren Press Poetry Contest

Front Jacket

This is Aeneas, once son of Venus, now a warfighting daughter of America deployed 'from Charlottesville to Fallujah, ' straining in the thick of modern war's most perverse miasma. Tiffany Higgins' anachronistic and recast hero is one brilliantly charged nexus of exploitation and war; she is captured, tortured, and released as a sequence of heart-breaking lyrics. A stunning book. --Patrick Herron, author of The American Godwar Complex

Back Jacket

This is Aeneas, once son of Venus, now a warfighting daughter of America deployed 'from Charlottesville to Fallujah, ' straining in the thick of modern war's most perverse miasma. Tiffany Higgins' anachronistic and recast hero is one brilliantly charged nexus of exploitation and war; she is captured, tortured, and released as a sequence of heart-breaking lyrics. A stunning book. --Patrick Herron, author of The American Godwar Comple

Author Biography

Tiffany Higgins's poems have been published in Big Bridge, The Kenyon Review and other journals. Her critical essays on the work of Mahmoud Darwish and Iraqui poet Dunya Mukhail have appeared in Poetry Flash. She has translated poems of the Lebanese writer Nadia Tueni, from the French, that have been published in the journal nocturnes. She teaches English at several colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area.