The Desperate Housewife Whose Face Launched a Thousand Ships

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The Desperate Housewife Whose Face Launched a Thousand Ships

In Greek mythology, Helen was the daughter of Leda, born from an egg after Leda was raped by Zeus in the form of a swan. Helen married King Menelaus of Sparta, then ran off with Paris from Troy, precipitating the 10-year Trojan War as a Greek alliance fought to get Helen back. In her first book of poems, “Helen of Troy, 1993,” Maria Zoccola has beautifully and resourcefully reimagined this mythic material and relocated it to Sparta, Tenn., which…