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Cicada / Phoebe Giannisi ; translated from the Greek by Brian Sneeden.
Van Pelt Library PA5638.17.I1885 R3713 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Giannisē, Phoivē, author.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 1524.
- New Directions paperbook ; 1524
- Standardized Title:
- Rapsōdia. English.
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- Subjects (All):
- Giannisē, Phoivē--Translations into English.
- Giannisē, Phoivē.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Translations.
- Physical Description:
- 88 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
- Summary:
- "By one of Greece's foremost contemporary poets, Cicada is Phoebe Giannisi's second collection in English. The cicada signifies metamorphosis in this breathtaking, lyrical book, which evokes the spirits of Archilochus, Plato, Empedocles, and Heraclitus. As the translator Brian Sneeden remarks: "The 'I' in Giannisi's poetry is never static, never a fixed point, but part of a process of rebodying the ambient." Yet, despite the fluid, mythic nature of Giannisi's poems, they are also exquisitely rooted in the everyday: the sea heard through a window, the murmur of a distant mechanical crane, a damp wind, a photo of John and Yoko. Giannisi is a poet internationally known for her idiosyncratic eco-poetics, as well as her poetic multimedia works and performances, and most of all for her brilliant vision glowing at the borders of language, voice, place, and memory"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Ecdysis
- Leaves
- Birthday
- Weaving
- Whirring Cicada
- Cicadas
- The Present Moment
- Preparation
- Poppy
- Breath
- Rites of Passage
- Dream: Leda/Helen
- Phaleron
- Winged
- You Me
- The End
- Rose Geranium
- Touch
- The Other
- John and Yoko
- Earth and Sky
- Archilochus
- High Road Low Road
- Sublime Harmony
- Depiction of an Original
- Horse
- Voicings
- Fish
- Word
- Bed
- Time
- Places
- Thought
- Testimony
- Eos and Tithonus
- Tiresias
- The Junk Dealer
- The Car
- Backyard
- Homeless
- Borrowed Brightness
- Zeno's Paradox
- Paros-Piraeus: Mini-History of the World
- Via Egnatia
- Platanidia
- Stones
- The Present Moment II
- The Ferryman.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780811230230
- 0811230236
- OCLC:
- 1268545806
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