Homerica Forest of Noise Sara Gilmore’s poems and translations

Sara Gilmore’s poems and translations have appeared in The Paris Review

Marguerite Duras

lie around standing up for themselves and fornicating with the void

and transformative hopes of the United States of the 1960s--so much of which still resonates today

I know sex is good but have you ever tried combining poetry and chocolate

Homerica Forest of Noise Sara Gilmore’s poems and translationsPhoebe Giannisi The first English translation of one of Greeces 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 otherworldlyrather, they appear alongside the tugboat, the bicycle, the television, and the helicopter. Brian Sneedens masterful translation captures the Delphic rhythms of Giannisis oracular poems,