Homerica

Poetry. Women's Studies. Greek Studies. Translated from the Greek by Brian Sneeden. For the first time in English—a volume of poems by one of Greece's foremost poetic voices. Phoebe Giannisi's HOMERICA offers a contemporary Odyssey of loss, longing, motherhood, and metamorphosis, re- weaving classical mythology with modern experience. Yet the mythic characters and scenes never feel otherworldly—rather, they appear alongside the tugboat, the bicycle, the television, and the helicopter. Brian...