So Spoke Penelope

By Tino Villanueva

Poetry. "Tino Villanueva's new collection of poems is special among examples of the literary reception of Homer's Odyssey . It is the most extensive and intensive effort to give the longing wife of Odysseus a poetic voice of her own throughout the twenty years of her waiting during her husband's absence from home." Wolfgang Haase "An intense poetic hovering over a situation of prolonged expectation....The poems in SO SPOKE PENELOPE are simply amazing, whether in the form of an apostrophe to the absent Odysseus or to the Gods, whether in a narrative past-tense mode or in the immediacy of the lived present, whether in the staccato of monosyllables or in the exuberance of unusual compounds, whether they employ Greek-feeling pentameter lines, alliteration, or anaphora. This poetic cycle shows that the whole range of human experience is contained in Penelope of Ithaca." Werner Sollors"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1891592025
• ISBN13: 9781891592027
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Grolier Poetry Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.