Book record
Stone-garland: Six Poets From the Greek Lyric Tradition
Anthology
Stone-garland: Six Poets From the Greek Lyric Tradition is an anthology of Ancient Greek poetry, translated by Dan Beachy-Quick, published by Milkweed Editions. It is an anthology of six poets from the ancient Greek lyric tradition, translated and arranged by Dan Beachy-Quick. As an anthology, it matters because it treats the classical lyric not as museum marble, but as a garland of still-fragrant fragments. I would not approach it as a book that needs to be solved before it can begin working. Start with the title, the pressure of the translated line, and the feeling of a voice making room for itself in English. The value here is not just metadata or representation. It is the chance to let a particular book create its own weather, its own difficulty, and its own way of asking the reader to listen.
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Country
- Greece