SOURCE: A review of Medea the Sorceress, in Small Press, Vol. 9, No. 4, Fall, 1991, p. 74.

In the following review, Gladysz discusses the first volume of Wakoski's multi-volume set The Archeology of Movies and Books. The critic finds Medea the Sorceress to be an ambitious and original book that uses the work of other writers and filmmakers in the "unearthing of personal meaning."

For her last book, Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962–1987, Diane Wakoski was awarded the Poetry Society of America William Carlos Williams Award. That award is a fitting tribute, for Wakoski draws on Williams' book-length poem Paterson as a model for her recent volume, Medea the Sorceress.

Medea the Sorceress—apparently volume one of a longer work entitled The Archeology of Movies and Books—is a more ambitious project than Wakoski's initial attempt at a book-length work, the ongoing Greed poems. Wakoski draws upon Williams' example of incorporating short...