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Stone-Garland: Six Poets from the Greek Lyric Tradition
Paperback
Series: Seedbank, Book 5
Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781571315328
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Sep 8 2020
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
As part of the publisher's 'Seedbank' series, aiming to preserve endangered literatures, the poet Beachy-Quick offers a modern gloss on six ancient Greeks.--New York Times Book Review, New & Noteworthy Poetry
Anthology. The Greek origins of the word gesture at a bouquet, a garland; a flower-logic, a petal-theory, a blossom-word. In Stone-Garland, Dan Beachy-Quick brings the term back to its roots, linking together the lives and words of six singular ancient Greeks.
Simonides: honest servant to patrons. Anacreon: lustful singer, living on in the work of his acolytes. Archilochus: cruel critic, beloved of the Muses. Alcman: who took birds as his teachers. Theognis: chronicler of human excellence and vice. Callimachus: cosmopolitan head librarian at Alexandria. These are the poets who appear in these pages, sometimes in fragments, sometimes in sustained glimpses.
Drawing inspiration from the Greek Anthology, first drafted in the first century BC, Beachy-Quick presents translations filled with lovers and children, gods and insects, earth and water, ideas and ideals. Throughout, the line between the ancient and the contemporary blurs, and the logic of how life should be lived decays wondrously into the more difficult possibilities of what life is.
Spare, earthy, lovely, Stone-Garland offers readers of the Seedbank series its lyric blossoms and subtle weave, a walk through a cemetery that is also a garden.
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