Homerica by Phoivē Giannisē and translated by Brian Sneeden

This is poetry from Greece.

Homerica by Phoivē Giannisē translated by Brian Sneeden is published by World Poetry Books. This is a Book originally written in Greek. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780999261309E12.

Homerica, by Phoivē Giannisē and translated by Brian Sneeden from Greek, brings Greek-language poetry from Greece into English through Homeric echo, contemporary return, and a Greek imagination still arguing with epic inheritance. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for sea, myth, song, and the way old stories continue to make new demands on the body, not as a fixed lesson about Greece. 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. Homerica belongs in the translated poetry library because it keeps ancient and contemporary Greek poetry in active conversation.

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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