In Richard Howard's new collection, voices of myth and memory prevail, if only by means of prevarication -- the voice of Medea's mother trying to explain her daughter's odd behavior to an indiscreet interviewer; or first and last the voice of Henry James, late in life, faced with the disputed prospect of meeting L. Frank Baum and then, even later on, "managing" not only Maeterlinck's Bluebeard but his own unruly cast of characters, including Mrs...