Poems of Ancient Rome and Greece - Couverture souple

Saitta, Mr. Christopher T.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798992183108

Editeur : Dancing Satyr Press, 2025

Synopsis

This three-part book of poems is a learned journey to the authentic voice of the Ancient World, focusing on Rome and Greece. With language used as labyrinth, these poems criss-cross the narrow alleys and byways of antiquity, then follow the pulse of these early civilizations through the Medieval, before nesting in a modern view tinged with reverence for our past glories and failings.

Thematically and symbolically, the book is a metaphorical Colosseum of its own hand-placed brick of words with a touch of old Roman concrete and limestone, as porous and crumbled at the edges as time’s treasured monuments:

The moldering walls of lips, the kiss of vacant streets
And the quiet, wet solitude bespoken by back roads,
The whispered origami of the Forum, paper gods in folds…

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dancing Satyr Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798992183108
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 115
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible