The Siren in the Twelfth Housecombines metaallegory with a strident exploration of the vicissitudes of love and companionship Its anthropomorphic signs bring the astrological into the quotidian a logic to randomness of experience anda symphony from the 12 orchestral sections of the skies As we trace the transformation of the titular siren we cannot help but have our own gazes and capacities for orphic interpretation sharpened as well

Tolu Oloruntoba author ofThe Junta of HappenstanceandEach One a Furnace

With a sweeping grace and theatrical cinematic flare Victoria Mbabazi writes us into the delicious tropes and archetypes of astrologyfrom the signs to the houses to the transitswith the careful precise eye of a poetltem gtSiren in the Twelfth Houseis bright with a familiar ancient fascinationwhat we have with the stars with the sky and most of all with each other