<p>Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlet Series", <em>All the Helens of Troy</em> is Bernadette Mayers's profile of all of the Helens living in Troy, New York, done with poems and images, mixing theclassical with the ordinary and delightful intelligence with irreverence. </p><p>An excerpt:</p><p><em>everybody died</em></p><p><em>there’s nothing more to say<br />my hair’s braided like a family<br />i took off, it was fun, i loved it</em></p><p><em>if you did something wrong, they punished you<br />one helen is enough, trust me</em></p>