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“In Sonnets to Orpheus, Rainer Marie Rilke finds a non-dialectical resolution to radical dualism by aesthetically realizing the doubled world revealed by Orpheus’ ability to move back and forth between life and death. Artemis Jamison’s Sonnets to Persephone takes up a different myth about a back-and-forth between life and death — here the hero-figure is feminine. Her vocabulary is Rilke’s, but what she offers is a second way those words might be placed, a second version by which a different, feminine account is given. There is great wisdom in this — what’s so clear in Rilke’s sequence stuns again in its second shape.” --David Need, Literary Translator of Roses