{"product_id":"stone-garland-paperback","title":"Stone-Garland: Six Poets from the Greek Lyric Tradition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan Beachy-Quick\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"As part of the publisher's 'Seedbank' series, aiming to preserve endangered literatures, the poet Beachy-Quick offers a modern gloss on six ancient Greeks.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \"New \u0026amp; Noteworthy Poetry\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthology. The Greek origins of the word gesture at a bouquet, a garland; \"a flower-logic, a petal-theory, a blossom-word.\" \u003ci\u003eIn Stone-Garland\u003c\/i\u003e, Dan Beachy-Quick brings the term back to its roots, linking together the lives and words of six singular ancient Greeks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimonides: honest servant to patrons. Anacreon: lustful singer, living on in the work of his acolytes. Archilochus: cruel critic, beloved of the Muses. Alcman: who took birds as his teachers. Theognis: chronicler of human excellence and vice. Callimachus: cosmopolitan head librarian at Alexandria. These are the poets who appear in these pages, sometimes in fragments, sometimes in sustained glimpses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing inspiration from the \u003ci\u003eGreek Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e, first drafted in the first century BC, Beachy-Quick presents translations filled with lovers and children, gods and insects, earth and water, ideas and ideals. Throughout, the line between the ancient and the contemporary blurs, and \"the logic of how life should be lived decays wondrously into the more difficult possibilities of what life is.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpare, earthy, lovely, \u003ci\u003eStone-Garland \u003c\/i\u003eoffers readers of the Seedbank series its lyric blossoms and subtle weave, a walk through a cemetery that is also a garden. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Beachy-Quick\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, essayist, and translator. His books include \u003ci\u003eVariations on Dawn and Dusk\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the National Book Awards. His work has been supported by the Lannan, Monfort, and Guggenheim Foundations. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42104315773063,"sku":"9781571315328","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/651be8d6838b9821fd2053bf2d7514e5.webp?v=1732423023","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/stone-garland-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}