Product Description: The red of Dionysus belongs to women. So dark it is almost black, it calls up old wine, deep wounds, and the marbled walls of the womb itself heavy with twisted veins reaching inevitably toward the heart. At the heart of the Mystery chamber that anchors these pages in Pompeii there is an unabashed love of women ...read more

Product Description: This book is described by Nor Hall as “a praise-piece to duplicitous metal-artful and harrowing-and to its handlers.” Part One, "Irons in the Fire," is a prose character sketch of iron and iron workers, “the people who work iron and can’t keep their hands off it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: In the folk customs of couvade—"brooding" or "hatching"—practiced around the world, a man takes on the specific sexual and emotional events of a woman's body so that her experience becomes his. He becomes pregnant, writhes in labor, nurses the child, suffers postpartum fatigue—in short, is a male mother...read more

Product Description: This book is about the God who electrifies women. And the Dionysian charge that surfaces in thief and writing of Jungian analyst Linda Fierz-David, classicist Jane Ellen Harrison, poet H.D. Although the scene of this work is the mystery chamber in Roman Pompeii, it really begins with the need to fathom a mystery of identity...read more