The Queen of Swords

This is the second of Grahn's projected four-volume "Chronicle of Queens" series. Subtitled "a play with poetic myths," it evolves around a modern-day Helen (associated with Inanna, the Sumerian Queen of Heaven and Earth) who descends to an underworld complete with a lesbian bar and a chorus of punning crow-dykes who put her through various trials designed to release her powers. The play is followed by two poems, connected thematically and imagistically, and exhaustive notes explaining the mythic allusions.

• Author
• Judy Grahn

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 192

• Publisher
• Beacon Press (MA)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780807068038

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 1990