Medea the Sorceress:

The Archaeology of Movies and Books, Volume 1

A sustained meditation on personal past and the secret nature of reality, this work unearths a wealth of hidden meanings from the first-person-historical dimensions recording a Southern California girlhood, moves to Berkeley, Nevada and Michigan, and the chain of great expectations developed along the way–built out of Hollywood movie dreams (“imagining our lives, instead of living them”) and inevitably shattered by disappointing and betraying real-life relationships. The bittersweet and ironic evocations of the failed loves of her life make this among the most moving as well as revealing of Wakoski’s books.

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Diane Wakoski is an American poet primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s. Her work has been published in more than twenty collections and many collections of poetry. Her selected poems, Emerald Ice, won the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Poetry Society of America in 1989.