Calypso's Longing: A Woman's Odyssey of Love - Paperback

by Jo Anna Bennerson (Editor), Jo Anna Bella (Author)

In Homer's The Odyssey, Calypso is hailed as "the Concealer", the lustrous temptress goddess who holds the great Greek Warrior hero Odysseus captive on her island, Ogygia, on his way home from the Trojan War.

In this riveting collection of poetry, woven as a novella, we finally hear Calypso's side of the story as we discover her washed-up diary eagerly languishing on our curious shore. We sense the depth of emotions of both Odysseus and Calypso while indulging in the scenery and the atmosphere of this romantic retelling from the vast chronicles of Greek Mythology.

In this fiction fantasy we experienced the five cycles of love - anticipated, activated, annihilated, adjudicated and authenticated - in this interwoven novella of over one hundred original poems. We modern-day lovers are ultimately set free as this reimagining finally frees Calypso from merely being a byline in Homer's version of history and Odysseus' story.

In this romantic, poetic novella of a woman's odyssey of love, in this recently emerged and suddenly discovered private memoir that captures the loving, healing feminine energy embodied by a beautiful earth goddess, in this hidden chronicle of love that embodies the different phases of Love - now these many centuries, later, we hear...HER... her story...through Calypso's varied emotions. In this diary, we hear her, her music...we hear Calypso!

Imagine strolling along the beach,
Having the brisk rolling waves soothingly caress your Aching feet
And finding there,
Calypso's diary in amongst the tangled weeds and Sunked-in sand,
Enduring its odyssey far From the hidden caverns of time,
arriving across the Telling ages into your alluring hands.

...The swaying tides ebb and flow,
Chanting, Whistling, Mimicking...

Haven't we all been... Calypso?"