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The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems (Lannan Translation Selection (Graywolf Paperback))

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One of Greece's most noted poets now has a retrospective collection of her best available in English. "The Scattered Papers of Penelope" is a collection of some of Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke's newer work as well as a sampling of her older work as it has not been previously published in English. A fine look at the mind of the modern Greek woman, "The Scattered Papers of Penelope" is an excellent pick for world poetry fans. "Yanousa and a Poem": When I was in love, it flowered.//The sun a distant white flower/perfumed the cold./Yanousa begins a poem./She sees it stretching like the gum/we chewed as children/stretching out the window/and disappearing around the corner of the blue sky./What was the poem about?/She forgot. Some memory that also disappeared/around the corner of the mind./Why do people write poems?/So they have them when nature turns off the light.