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Reviews of The Scattered Papers of Penelope


“The range and power of Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke’s language, as she recasts and reweaves the Greek idiom into forms that are powerful and new, has been compellingly captured by the translators in this volume.”
—WORLD LITERATURE TODAY

“‘My villa is built from the body’s white energy and everything confirms the indestructible nature of my erotic scheming.’ So writes Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke in this essential anthology of a life’s work, in which the mind accompanies the body in its restless experiments. The knowledge and blindness the human body brings to the self are here explored in all their registers, illuminating the darkest corners we contain. Anghelaki-Rooke’s work, here rendered into English by some of the finest translators of Modern Greek, ruffles the silences surrounding us.”
—ELENI SIKELIANOS

“Karen Van Dyck is the ideal translator for this capacious, island-grounded poet of mythic invention and appetite, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke. After years of lucid, concerted work with the poet, as well as her previous translators, Van Dyck delivers us a luminous volume of poems which is tonally pitch-perfect, syllabically Apollonian, revealing Anghelaki-Rooke’s unified, willful and intent oeuvre. This collection exists in poetry, not in translation.”
—OLGA BROUMAS

 
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