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Exactly what does it mean to be always a poet's wife, his muse and lover, there for the levels of inspiration and the quotidian of the day-to-day, and in many cases, too, the drudgery of being in a supporting role to "the fantastic man"? Within this exquisite and delicate new novel, David Area explores this complicated romance through three luminous people: Catherine Blake, wife of William Blake, 19th-century poet, painter, and engraver; Nadezhda Mandelstam, whose partner, Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, died in a transit camp on the way to Siberia during Stalin's guideline; and Lydia, the wife of a imaginary contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her behalf husband's life in the days just after his death. All three women package with their husband's popularity or notoriety, taking critically their commitment to the men they committed and to assisting with and conserving their work. And this despite infidelities, despite a single-mindedness at the trouble of others, and despite hardship sometimes beyond comprehension. Placed across continents and hundreds of years, under wildly different circumstances, these three women exist as a testament to love, to relationship regardless of the odds, and fine art. Deeply insightful and amazingly wrought, The Poets' Wives is David Area at his best - a novelist who sees dignity and grace from the spotlight, and who reminds us that fine art has the capacity to take even the quietest of voices.
