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"In Cicada , her second English-language collection translated by Brian Sneeden, the Greek poet Phoebe Giannisi offers an intimate and utterly feminine perspective on language and regeneration. As she did in Homerica , her 2017 contemporary “Odyssey,” Giannisi intertwines the past with the present in order to experience the world around her anew.”"       - Jessica Gigot, The New York Times "...arresting and often chant-like... these poems are dynamic in their visual and linguistic movement"       - Publishe

The poems in Last City by Brian Sneeden accomplish that rarest – and most vital – feat in poetry: they are spells, conjurings, wards. The earth and the stars, the past and the present, life and death – they are all made new, or strange, or singing, here. I cannot imagine a better, richer debut than this.        - Paul Guest The poems in Brian Sneeden’s Last City speak with an oracular tenderness that only partly disguises their chthonic wisdom. Sneeden guides us through rooms haunted by a “good-bye harvest/

Selected by Anne Carson as a Favorite Book of 2017 in the Paris Review . "Giannisi's poetry is a wonderful combination of the classical and the underground avant-garde. Trained both in architecture and Ancient Greek, her poems tackle the problem of how to inhabit the spaces we live in — from the abandoned lot and the swimming pool to the page of the book. What a pleasure to have the full Homerica series in Brian Sneeden's lyrical translation."        - Karen Van Dyck "Brian Sneeden brings Homerica ’s psycho

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