The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems (The Lannan Translation)
Автор:Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke Год: 2009 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 128 ISBN: 1555975194 A career-spanning collection by one of greece’s most loved and lyrical contemporary poets, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke I wasn’t weaving, I wasn’t knitting I was writing something erasing and being erased under the weight of the word —from “Penelope Says” Drawn from the traditions of Greek myth, history, and literature, The Scattered Papers of Penelope is the poet Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke’s first full retrospective collection available in English. Carried over from the Greek by an array of noted translators, including the editor, Karen Van Dyck, Anghelaki-Rooke’s poetry is bold, sensual, and brash. She reexamines Greek myth and history through the female body—the body of Penelope; the poet’s own body, scarred by illness; the bodies of stray animals. Other poems and sequences take the form of a journal kept during the first Gulf War, prose poems about modern violence and the destruction of nature, existential musings on beings and things on their own, and...
