Spiritual Poems of the Soul
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Athena Becomes a Swallow and Other Voices from The Odyssey
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Brent MacLaine's elegant, capacious, and finely crafted fourth collection, Athena Becomes a Swallow, contains twenty-seven monologues spoken by characters that appear in Homer's The Odyssey. These are not the voices of the major players, but the voices of the minor characters who received scant attention in the original. Here they are allowed to have their say about the events that swirl around them, providing a new persepctive and showing how the shine of the gods also falls on the common folk.
Brent MacLaine teaches modern literature at the University of Prince Edward Island. His poetry collections include Shades of Green, These Fields Were Rivers, and Wind and Root. MacLaine has won the PEI Milton Acorn Award for Poetry and the Atlantic Poetry Prize.
- ISBN-13
- 9780864925381
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Imprint
- Goose Lane Editions
- Publication date
- 11 September 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 96
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 mm
- Illustrations
- black and white
- Language
- English
