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Myth appropriations, re-interpretations, re-visions.

Talk of myths, that which remains forever. Yet nothing is immovable, everything is eroded and reinterpreted by and in time. The stereotypical Circe, bewitching and terrible in her man-transforming alchemy, told by Ulysses' narrative, becomes the protagonist and narrative voice in “Circe/Fango,” Margaret Atwood's anti-heroic counter-odyssey. An exhortation to break free from preconstituted narratives, to imagine another island, another Eea, where female and male humanity can be directed toward new landscapes, new roles and new sharing. Six sheets of handmade paper watermark the words of the twenty-fourth part of the poem. II title 'Two Islands' 'in Esperanto, refers to its etymology, which means to hope.