The Wood Wife By Terri Windling

About the author terri windling is a writer editor artist and passionate advocate of fantasy literature.

The wood wife by terri windling.

Journalist and ex poet maggie black has inherited the estate of pulitzer prize winning poet davis cooper with whom she corresponded for years but never met. Free shipping over 10. The wood wife is a novel by american writer terri windling published by tor books in 1996. Buy a cheap copy of the wood wife book by terri windling.

Set in the mountain outskirts of contemporary tucson arizona the novel could equally be described as magical realism contemporary fantasy or mythic fiction. The wood wife may satisfy some readers but i found it disappoin as she explores his home and the mysteries of his life and death she begins to suspect that the magic that fills cooper s poems is not allegory but rather reflects the reality of the desert mountains. She knew then why she d run back to los angeles away from the nice man up north who said he loved her. By terri windling the wood wife 1st first edition hardcover hardcover january 1 1996.

It won the mythopoeic award for novel of the year. The wood wife davis cooper. Nigel was a hard act to follow. It is windling s first novel.

Her heart that traitorous organ still leapt when she saw her ex husband through the window glass. Windling draws on myth folklore poetry and the history of surrealist art to tell the s.