Homerica Anneke Brassinga Brand’s ongoing labors of witness

Brand’s ongoing labors of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds

the horseman on the night's street

and they gather together as many as are deemed fit to save

Christina Rossetti

In this sea of mirrors

Homerica Anneke Brassinga Brand’s ongoing labors of witnessPhoebe 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,