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.

Format: Paperback
Published: USA. 2022
Publisher: New Directions
Pages: 88
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780811230230
ISBN 10: 0811230236

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books.

Spains most beloved poet, Federico Garca Lorca brilliantly captures the beauty and brutality of the twentieth century.His creative imagination transcends his own experiences be it from the perspective of an ant, a gypsy nun, or Socrates to meditate on death, love and honour, and to interrogate the decay and pretence of his society. Lorcas poetry excites, moves and disarms.

Format: Paperback
Published: 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 128
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0241746841
ISBN 13: 9780241746844