Barbara A. Holland (1925-1988) was called "the Sybil of Greenwich Village," not only for her sometimes eerie presence and her incantatory readings, but also because she wrote a number of powerful poems on mythological women. In 1976, the poet went off to the Macdowell Colony in New Hampshire with a working manuscript collecting her unique "impressions and impersonations" of famed or unknown women who, "in conflict with the gods or the mores and customs...
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