 For her latest book, "Three Trios", Hall concocted the alter ego of J II, a Jewish female poet who lived in the sixth century B.C.E.who wrote the Apocryphal book of Judith as well as a mysterious, coded set of pagan poems associated with the cult of Dionysius.These ‘translations’ emit the same earthiness and sensuality of the best ancient erotic poetry but are framed in Hall's contemporary language – not stale, but sexy.