Cut these words into my stone by Anthology and translated by Michael Wolfe

This is poetry from Greece.

Cut these words into my stone by Anthology translated by Michael Wolfe is published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. This is a Book originally written in Ancient Greek. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78142140804E12.

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.

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.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.