Despite being printed with some kind of coverstock that gave me fingernails-on-a-chalkboard cringes to touch, this is a great little book. Seemingly written on a family trip to Greece, and punctuated with drawings by her children, a format which could easily become cloying but does not, Cox intersperses Classical with contemporary imagery in a way that seems organic and genuine. ("the furies have chased you down the close / arteries of Plaka / with the memories of a flower/ necklace and do More...

Super Undone Blue by Sarah Anne Cox
Published by Carmen Giménez Smith incollaboration with Dusie Press. Drawings from Paris and Phaedra Cox-Farr

A smooth mix of classic Greek and modern day inspired by a summer holiday in Greece, 2008 where “[T:]he mermaid in her orange flippers can swim a blue streak,” where “Heracles has a summerhouse on Pelion” and you are served “Pork chops from the Minotaur.” This cool blue raises “the memory of a flower / necklace and a double axe.”