Brian Sneeden is a PhD candidate in translation studies at the University of Connecticut. Peter Constantine, director of the UConn Program in Literary Translation, is his sponsoring professor. Sneeden’s collection of poems, Last City, was recently published by Carnegie Mellon University Press (2018), and his translation of Giannisi’s Homerica (World Poetry Books) was published in 2017. He currently serves as senior editor of New Poetry in Translation.
The poet Phoebe Giannisi and WLT Translation Prize (Poetry) winner Brian Sneeden
Leaves
Inside these articulations
the beginnings of language
outside of yes and no...
Storrs, Connecticut. World Poetry Books. 2017. 148 pages.
Perhaps more than any other oral epic, The Odyssey is a story about retelling one’s own story. It, therefore, demands to be recast an...