I first read Edith Hamilton's "Mythology" when I was a freshman in college, and I fell in love with Greek myth then and there.  So when my daughter was in seventh grade, and came saying we needed to go buy this book, i said: "I think we have a copy around here somewhere."  And indeed we did.  She looked at it and said," This can't be the right book.  It only cost fifty cents."
      It's still the best introduction to the stories.  And the more I studied poetry, the more mythology got into my blood.
      Then I discovered the novels of Mary Renault--"the Last of the Wine," "the Bull from the Sea," "The King Must Die."  She turned mythology into plausible realistic fiction.  And it was still wonderful.
     I say all this to explain why my poems took on such a mythological bent, even before I read Jean Bolen's "the Godesses in Every Woman," which gave me a structure for "Vision at Delphi."  That book was first issued in 1995 and is about to be reissued now.   Watch for it.  I went to Greece for the first time in 1977, and at Delphi, Athena spoke to me.  It just took me a few months to figure out what she said.  This was aat the height of the Women's Movement, but I don't think it's dated.  There's a new generation of young women out there who need to hear the message of the Greek goddessses. 

Vision at Delphi, published by Little Creek Books, is not on the bookshelves at Bubba's Book Swap, and on line at Amazon.  It will be available at Capo's Music Store in Abingdon at a special event, August 4, 4:00 p.m. till 7:00 p.m.    That's at 903 East Main Street (exit 19) in Abingdon.  Other authors will be there--Linda Hudson Hoagland, Kim Rohrer, Sharon Kaye, and Rebecca Williams Spindler.  Hope to see you there.
      Let me tell you about Vision at Delphi.  It was first published in 1995 by Tyro Publishers, but they no longer do books.  So this is a second edition.  It concerns women's issues, organized around the Greek goddesses, as discussed by Jean Bolen in Greek Goddesses in Everywoman.  There is first Athena, goddess of wisdom.  When I first went to Delphi, the goddess spoke to me.  It just took me a few months to figure out what she said.  But then there are Aphrodite, Hera, and Artemis, goddess of love, Zeus's wife, and Apollo's sister.  It is Artemis that Jean Bolen identifies with the Women's Movement.  Demeter and Persophne complete the group--mother and daughter.  Demeter embodies motherhood, but Persophne becomes the Queen of Hell.  I hope you'll look for it.  And come to Abingdon in August.  See you then.