Book record
Greek Ballad
Anthology
Translated from Greek by David Connolly
Greek Ballad is an anthology translated and edited through David Connolly, gathering 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 ballad, song, oral tradition, and communal memory, 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. Greek Ballad belongs in the translated poetry library because it helps readers find more than one entrance into a literary world.
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Language
- Greek
- Country
- Greece
- ISBN
- 9780300233346