The Brittle Gods includes 38 poems celebrating collisions - sometimes jarring - of ancient with modern Greece. For example, in poem "Dionysos in Aulis,"... holding the wheel very tight, staringstraight down the road remembering another time, when sails hung loose days after weeks, impatient generals sharing nods.We didwhat we had to, then slapped our shieldson swaying hulls for luck, sails snapping like dogsAgamemnon remembers the sacrifice he had to make [killing his daughter] so his fleet could sail against Troy.
The Brittle Gods includes 38 poems celebrating collisions - sometimes jarring - of ancient with modern Greece. For example, in poem "Dionysos in Aulis,"... holding the wheel very tight, staringstraight down the road remembering another time, when sails hung loose days after weeks, impatient generals sharing nods.We didwhat we had to, then slapped our shieldson swaying hulls for luck, sails snapping like dogsAgamemnon remembers the sacrifice he had to make [killing his daughter] so his fleet could sail against Troy.
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