{"product_id":"the-scattered-papers-of-penelope-katerina-anghelaki-rooke-9781555975197","title":"The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eA career-spanning collection by one of greece's most loved and lyrical contemporary poets, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI wasn't weaving, I wasn't knitting \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI was writing something \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eerasing and being erased \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eunder the weight of the word \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e --from \"Penelope Says\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDrawn from the traditions of Greek myth, history, and literature, \u003ci\u003eThe Scattered Papers of Penelope \u003c\/i\u003eis the poet Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke's first full retrospective collection available in English. Carried over from the Greek by an array of noted translators, including the editor, Karen Van Dyck, Anghelaki-Rooke's poetry is bold, sensual, and brash. She reexamines Greek myth and history through the female body--the body of Penelope; the poet's own body, scarred by illness; the bodies of stray animals. Other poems and sequences take the form of a journal kept during the first Gulf War, prose poems about modern violence and the destruction of nature, existential musings on beings and things on their own, and lush descriptions of the domestic world on the poet's adopted home island of Aegina. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Scattered Papers of Penelope \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces to American readers a major global poetic voice, a winner of the Greek National Prize for Poetry and the Greek Academy's Poetry Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555975194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555975197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.02w x 0.45d","brand":"Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46974618403071,"sku":"9781555975197","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5fb9cc0b-6174-4a81-accc-80b3f749f847.jpg?v=1750875557","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-scattered-papers-of-penelope-katerina-anghelaki-rooke-9781555975197","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}