A Woman of Thirty

A poetry collection presents a midlife speaker whose concerns move through sections that include a morality-play portrait of an old woman, summer and autumn love sequences, concise studies and designs, and reflective interludes. Poems shift between intimate lyric, satiric sketches, and vignette-like portraits, exploring desire, aging, disillusion, memory, and the tensions of social ritual. Imagery ranges from domestic interiors to landscape and travel motifs, often using veil, mud, and religious or classical allusion to probe freedom, loss, and self-fashioning. Tone alternates between ironic wit, elegiac melancholy, and controlled theatricality.