Cicada by Phoebe Giannisi and translated by Brian Sneeden

This is poetry from Greece.

Cicada by Phoebe Giannisi translated by Brian Sneeden is published by Norton & Company Limited, W. W.. This is a Book originally written in Greek. This was published in 2022.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78081123023E12.

Cicada, by Phoebe Giannisi and translated by Brian Sneeden from Greek, brings Greek poetry into English through Phoebe Giannisi’s cicada, song, summer, and the creaturely sound that binds Greek landscape to mythic memory. 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 cicada, song, summer, and the ancient modern noise of a body making weather audible, 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. Cicada belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives contemporary Greek poetry a vivid animal music and ecological charge.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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