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Maria Zoccola, a queer Southern writer and educator from Memphis, Tennessee, brings the epic to the everyday in her debut collection, <\/span>Helen of Troy, 1993 <\/span><\/i>(Scribner, 2025). One of her \u201cHelen\u201d poems was previously featured in <\/span>The Cream City Review, <\/span><\/i>and <\/span>Zoccola\u2019s work has earned her Best Small Fictions and Best New Poets nominations, as well as a special mention for the Pushcart Prize. Here, Zoccola shows off her knowledge of the Classics while keeping her writing voice approachable, giving her readers a sense of living in a Greek tragedy borne of the late 20<\/span>th<\/span> Century.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With a title like <\/span>Helen of Troy, 1993, <\/span><\/i>it is unsurprising that this is a telling of Homer\u2019s <\/span>Iliad <\/span><\/i>that we haven\u2019t heard before. In <\/span>an interview<\/span><\/a> with the <\/span>Alaska Quarterly Review, <\/span><\/i>Zoccola addresses what she finds to be an \u201cunfair ending\u201d for the Queen of Sparta in the original, having no <\/span>agency <\/span><\/i>in the events that happen around her. It\u2019s a bit of a paradox in the initial story: if Helen is the driving force behind the events of the Trojan War, why is she not the protagonist? Here, Helen<\/span> takes center stage. In the town of Sparta, Tennessee, we learn of Helen\u2019s family, their names appropriately disguised or shortened to match Helen\u2019s deadpan, often sarcastic tone; for instance, her husband Menelaus is referred to as \u201cThe Big Cheese,\u201d her daughter Hermoine is \u201cThe Kid,\u201d and her lover Paris is \u201cThe Stranger.\u201d Helen\u2019s voice as we hear about her daily (mis)adventures is biting, sometimes humorous, and yet quietly tragic; while reading, it\u2019s easy to get the feeling that we <\/span>know<\/span><\/i> this person, or someone just like her.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The storyline of the collection draws inspiration from both Euripides\u2019 tragedy <\/span>Helen <\/span><\/i>and Homer\u2019s epic <\/span>Iliad, <\/span><\/i>even building from the original text of the latter\u2014my personal favorite use of the original text includes a golden shovel within \u201chelen of troy avoids her school reunion,\u201d in which the last words of each line spell out the infamous lines: <\/span>\u201cbitch that I am, vicious, scheming\u201d<\/span><\/i> followed by Zoccola\u2019s own enjambed last words: <\/span>\u201chorror to freeze the heart\u201d<\/span><\/i> (Iliad <\/span><\/i>translated by Robert Fagles 6.408-409)<\/span>.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Understatement and irony dominate Helen\u2019s narration. Titles like \u201chelen cleans up after the barbecue\u201d and \u201canother thing about the affair\u201d both highlight the mundanity of everyday life and minimize the weight of her experiences; the choices Helen makes are hers, though an air of passivity casts a veil over the events that no doubt run emotions high. This is an interesting detail when read in tandem with how The Big Cheese treats Helen, encouraging her role as a housewife despite her claustrophobia and forbidding her access to the internet to keep her world small. Helen, conversely, pushes back at his attempts as she expresses pity, disappointment, and even hatred toward him. As we follow Helen\u2019s life story, she finds herself married and with a young child. Though Helen possesses some agency in her circumstances, we see how generational poverty, trauma, and societal pressure to do what one is \u201csupposed to\u201d can stand in for fate. Zoccola channels this push and pull against greater forces symbolically with literal winds of change. Helen tells us as she returns on foot to Sparta, after running off with The Stranger, that the wind <\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/i>scraped away shreds of <\/span><\/i>[<\/span>herself<\/span><\/i>]\/ <\/span>back to <\/span><\/i>[<\/span>her<\/span><\/i>], <\/span>old stretches of skin that fit\/ themselves to the holes <\/span><\/i>[<\/span>she\u2019d<\/span><\/i>] <\/span>been guarding.\u201d <\/span><\/i>Later, in \u201chelen of troy makes peace with the kudzu,\u201d she gives us these words:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cthe world around me\/ hunkered under the wrong spread of life,\/ and yet i saw that it was living,\/ edges softened, blanks filled in\u2014a sphere\/ that begged my absence, that collected\/ my childhood in its outstretched hands\/ and pushed it under the skin of itself,\/ hidden and repurposed, folded away,\/ breathing gently under combs of wind.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To provide context and add a layer of strangeness to the story, readers are given two more voices to contrast with Helen\u2019s. <\/span>For our Greek Chorus, the women of Sparta gossip among themselves. They inform us of such in \u201cthe spartan woman discuss the family\u201d: <\/span>“there are not ways of living. there’s one way\/ out of the mud and one way back in, if you\u2019re\/ concerned about that sort of thing. we’re not\/…we like\/ to take attendance, unofficially,\/ just a little whisper to share over coffee\/ in the church hall\u201d.<\/span><\/i> In more abstract moments, we are also given a narrative from \u201cThe Swan.\u201d Following the myth, it is not always clear if The Swan is an actual swan, Zeus in the form he took to impregnate Leda and conceive Helen, or both, or neither. This voice is from a distance\u2014a bird\u2019s-eye view, one might say\u2014and gives a similar feeling of remove Helen senses from the community. An example from \u201c(interlude: the swan describes an invasive species)\u201d:<\/span> \u201camerica killed her trumpeter swans, but she doesn\u2019t love\/ us, her mute replacements: so beautiful, so hungry, so vehement in\/ defending ourselves. helen, i see you. hatched from an egg, paddling\/ ever since. born in a land that doubts your claim to it.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Zoccola shows the big and small ways in which Helen\u2019s life unravels in her retelling, with the authenticity of her voice as a Southern writer imbued with the mystical quality of early Classical Antiquity. Her empathy for her characters cuts through their cynicism and mystery, giving readers a modern, human portrait of larger-than-life literary figures.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Helen of Troy, 1993 <\/span><\/i>is published by Scribner Poetry and distributed through Simon & Schuster. Purchase information can be found <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bios:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maria Zoccola<\/strong> is a poet and educator from Memphis, Tennessee. She has writing degrees from Emory University and Falmouth University and has spent several years leading creative writing workshops for middle and high school youth. Maria\u2019s work has previously appeared in\u00a0Ploughshares<\/i>,\u00a0The Kenyon Review<\/i>,\u00a0The Iowa Review<\/i>,\u00a0The Sewanee Review<\/i>,\u00a0ZYZZYVA<\/i>, and elsewhere, and has received a special mention for the Pushcart Prize.\u00a0Helen of Troy, 1993<\/i>\u00a0is her debut poetry collection.<\/p>\n

Allie Farrell\u00a0<\/strong>is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin \u2013 Milwaukee, studying English with an emphasis in Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies. She focuses on hauntings, history, and how the two intertwine. Allie is an Assistant Editor at\u00a0The Cream City Review.<\/em><\/p>\n

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