Phoebe Giannisi's Cicada Reviewed by Heather Green
"A contemporary Greek writer steeped in Classical Greek culture, Giannisi describes cicadas' apparition, flight, and sounds, while also drawing on the insect's appearances in poetry and its archetypal connections to summertime and myth. A heightened sense of wonder, borne from a recognition of the transitory nature of life itself, pervades this collection."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Chantal Neveu (Montreal) on EcoPoetry Now
"And when one takes last enough time, something can happen, an event, a sequence — unexpected. This phenomenon, without precedent, makes possible so much. To persist. Vibrate. Move. Resist. Founder. Transform. Separate. Shine — or not. In the breath of words are sounds, sensations, thoughts, meanings, objects, actions, passions, questions — random, rendered, phrased, fractals, ellipses, textualities, poems." |
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