Homerica
ISBN-13: 9780999261309
Author(s): Phoebe Giannisi
Subjects: DC
Publisher: World Poetry Books
Publisher Imprint: World Poetry Books
Publication Date: 05-12-2017
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£14.99
About the book
The first English translation of Phoebe Giannisi - one of Greece's foremost poetic voices - offers a contemporary Odyssey of loss, longing, motherhood, and metamorphosis, the poems re-weaving classical mythology with modern experience. The mythic characters and scenes of Homerica never feel otherworldly - rather, they appear alongside the tugboat, the bicycle, the television, and the helicopter. Brian Sneeden's masterful translation captures the Delphic rhythms of Giannisi's oracular poems, which rarely travel in a straight line but rather glide across multiple threads of time, like a loom interweaving strands of the mythological past.