Homerica

Author: Phoebe Giannisi

Translator: Brian Sneeden

Publisher: World Poetry Books (2025)

The first English translation of Phoebe Giannisi—one of Greece’s foremost poetic voices—offers a contemporary Odyssey of loss, longing, motherhood, and metamorphosis, the poems re-weaving classical mythology with modern experience.

The mythic characters and scenes of Homerica never feel otherworldly—rather, they appear alongside the tugboat, the bicycle, the television, and the helicopter. Brian Sneeden’s masterful translation captures the Delphic rhythms of Giannisi’s oracular poems, which rarely travel in a straight line but rather glide across multiple threads of time, like a loom interweaving strands of the mythological past.