“Give me your skin
as sheer as a cobweb,
let me open it up
and listen in and scoop out the dark.”

Dark, poetic, and at times humorous retellings of Grimms' Fairytales? We love her, folks. ( )

"It is your Doppelganger / trying to get out. / Beware . . . Beware . . ." ( )

When it comes to poetry, I'm not an expert. I just know what I like. And I really enjoyed this. She retold several fairy tales, but she would occasional add her own comments. She referred to snow white as a " dumb bunny". And when she told her version of Little Red Riding Hood, she asked why they give wine and cake to someone who's sick. It was just a fun, quick read. ( )

I was expecting this collection of poetry inspired by fairy tales to be a little more abstract and to feature less direct retellings of the stories. It wasn't bad, but I didn't really love it either. ( )

There's no telling the effect that this, Plath's Ariel and Diane Wakoski had on me. Who would I be without these writers? ( )