“Rosanna Warren’s Fables of the Self is a wonderful illumination of both lyric poetry from the ancients until now and of her own poetry and selfhood.”

“This is an astonishing book: it has the precision of a scalpel, and yet we never stop hearing the very personal, idiomatic voice of the author. The concise and beautiful opening essay, ‘Midi,’ provides us with a clue for how to wander through these pages that give shelter to ancient and contemporary poets. Here we are far away from that aseptic world of specialists who know only one thing. What a relief!”