Book record
Book of Excercises II
George Seferis
Translated from Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg
Book of Excercises II, by George Seferis and translated by Jennifer R. Kellogg from Greek, brings Greek poetry into English through Seferis's exercises, notebooks, and the disciplined practice behind a major Greek modernist voice. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem begins making its own weather. I would read it for exercise, exile, notebook, and the seriousness of poetry as daily apprenticeship, not as a fixed lesson about a nation, period, or school. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Book of Excercises II belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives readers Seferis not only as monument but as working mind.
- Published
- 2024
- Publisher
- World Poetry Books
- Language
- Greek
- Country
- Greece
- ISBN
- 9781954218284