Homerica

Phoebe Giannisi

The first English translation of one of Greece’s foremost poetic voices, now in a revised second edition, offers a contemporary Odyssey of loss, longing, motherhood, and metamorphosis. The mythic characters and scenes of Homerica never feel otherworldly—rather, they appear alongside the tugboat, the bicycle, the television, and the helicopter. Brian Sneeden’s masterful translation captures the Delphic rhythms of Giannisi’s oracular poems, which rarely travel in a straight line but rather glide across multiple threads of time, like a loom interweaving strands of the mythological past. Homerica was the first book to introduce Giannisi’s voice to English-language readers and this second edition includes a new preface by Eleni Sikelianos and a translator’s note.