Stone-Garland

The Stone-Garland is a collection of translations of six poets of the Greek lyric tradition, including Simonides, Anacreon, Archilochus, Theognis, Alcman, and Callimachus. It offers a glimpse into a world long gone, rekindling past identities and relationships to the world.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 24 September 2020
Publisher: Milkweed Editions

A New York Times Book Review's "New & Noteworthy" Poetry Collection

A Book Riot's "Best Fall 2020 Book in Translation"

Stone-Garland, the latest installment in the Seedbank Series, presents translations of six poets from the Greek lyric tradition.

While anecdotes about Simonides, Anacreon, Archilochus, Theognis, Alcman, and Callimachus may be readily accessible, their poems are less frequently restored. This anthology seeks to rectify that loss.

Reading ancient poetry is akin to strolling through a graveyard adorned with vibrant wildflowers. Imagine the graveyard as a place filled with broken stones, each holding a fragment that could potentially form a poem.

Gradually, you construct a garland, representing a possible vision of a world that has long since passed.

Dan Beachy-Quick serves as our guide on this captivating journey through the ruins of lyric poetry. Beachy-Quick's translations revel in the intricacies of ancient Greek, offering delights to logophiles throughout these pages.

Reviving the foundations of a poetic tradition that has evolved over centuries provides an opportunity to reconnect with past identities and relationships to the world.

Weight: 176g
Dimension: 140 x 216 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781571315328