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Homerica
Phoivē Giannisē
Translated from Greek by Brian Sneeden
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.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- World Poetry Books
- Language
- Greek
- Country
- Greece
- ISBN
- 9780999261309