A joint project by novelist and poet Joy Kogawa and artist Lilian Broca, A Song of Lilith ($21.95 paper 1-55192-366-1, 110 pp., Polestar Book Publishers) seeks to reclaim the legendary figure of Lilith, the original partner of Adam. Inspired by Broca’s vision of a mysterious and subtle Lilith, Kogawa wrote her long poem to accompany the images of a sensuous and powerful woman who was banished from human life for refusing to lie down beneath Adam when he suggested intercourse. According to legend, Lilith’s punishment for asserting her equality to Adam is to languish in demonic obscurity. Kogawa and Broca revision Lilith as a character whose strength ought to have become a model for all women. Instead, Eve was given to Adam as partner and her passivity has been upheld as virtuous. Although ponderous in places, the poem and images work effectively to suggest a dynamic, redemptive Lilith. Broca’s images celebrate the beauty and inspiration of her subject, though at times her adherence to almost Playboy-like standards of erotic beauty undermines the work’s powerful, liberating message.