Bright Air Black

In brilliant poetic prose Bright Air Black brings us aboard the ship Argo for its epic return journey across the Black Sea from Persia s Colchis where Medea flees her home and father with Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece. Vann s reimagining of this ancient tale offers a thrilling, realist alternative to the long held notions of Medea as monster or sorceress. We witness with dramatic u...