Book record
The scattered papers of Penelope
Katerina Angelaki-Rouk
Translated from Greek by Karen Van Dyck
Katerina Angelaki-Rouk's The scattered papers of Penelope, translated from Greek by Karen Van Dyck, brings poetry connected to Greece into English through Penelope, myth, scattered fragments, and feminist archive. I would not stop at the biographical or national frame, even when those contexts matter. The better entrance is through the poem's pressure: the image that will not sit still, the phrase that feels slightly denser than ordinary speech, the moment where feeling outruns explanation. This description should help a reader know why the book belongs on the shelf without pretending the book has been solved in advance. The scattered papers of Penelope feels useful for readers who want translated poetry to widen not only what they know, but how they listen.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Language
- Greek
- Country
- Greece
- ISBN
- 9781555975197