Two poems, “The Cinder Girl Burns Brightly” and “The Stepsister’s Tale”, reimagine Cinderella from the points of view not only of the stepsister who mutilates her foot to fit the slipper (and later becomes a podiatrist), but from the fire in the hearth. That stunning first story, “The Rose in Twelve Petals”, revisits Sleeping Beauty from no fewer than twelve viewpoints, including not only secondary characters, but the hound, the tower, and the spinning wheel itself. One of Goss’s characteristic techniques is simply shifting perspective. Le Guin (which expresses itself in somewhat different ways) and Goss’s own experience as a childhood immigrant from Hungary, and the result is a lyrical, resonant voice and a vision not quite like anyone else’s. For Goss, fairy tales are less a set of texts than a language she’s become fluent in sometimes she doesn’t even bother to explain which tale she’s riffing on, as with poems that subtly invoke classics like The Goose Girl, Fitcher’s Bird, or Melusine. McKillip, and Sylvia Townsend Warner, she brings a deep, almost scholarly understanding of folk materials with a sharp and at times playful way of reinventing them. Like Jane Yolen (who wrote an introduction to Goss’s 2019 collection Snow White Learns Witchcraft), Terri Windling (to whom that book was dedicated), Delia Sherman, Ellen Kushner, Patricia A. Although probably more widely known for her Athena Club trilogy (beginning with The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter in 2017) – a shrewd and hugely entertaining feminist reclamation of classic 19th-century horror stories – Goss is equally at home in an older tradition. Now we have Theodora Goss’s The Collected Enchantments, an overview of her career in poetry and fiction from her first published story, “The Rose in Twelve Petals” in 2002, to two stories and 13 poems original to this collection. Parker are in the offing, as well as posthumous titles from Gene Wolfe, Joanna Russ, and James Tiptree, Jr., (see below). Beagle and Catherynne Valente, and generous collections from Howard Waldrop and K.J. Last month, I looked at new books from Peter S. The Collected Enchantments, Theodora Goss ( Mythic Delirium 978-1-732, $39.99, 436pp, hc) February 2023.Ģ023 is already shaping up as something of a banner year for retrospective short story collections.

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