Book record
Cut these words into my stone
Anthology
Translated from Ancient Greek by Michael Wolfe
Cut these words into my stone is an anthology translated and edited through Michael Wolfe, gathering Ancient Greek poetry connected to Greece. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so it should be named plainly as an anthology. The book's field includes stone inscription, memory, and the ancient technologies of survival, but the larger importance is the act of gathering: voices placed near one another until a tradition, crisis, period, or language becomes newly audible. I would read it as both reference and invitation. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave doors open for wandering. Cut these words into my stone belongs in the translated poetry library because it helps readers find more than one entrance into a literary world.
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- The Johns Hopkins University Press
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Country
- Greece
- ISBN
- 9781421408040