Very Far From the Homeland
On contemporary readings from Etel Adnan, Mahmoud Darwish, and Alice Oswald exile in the Iliad.
by Lyndsey Stonebridge for Public Seminar
One of the cruelties of the Iliad is how alive each person is made to appear just before they are killed. That is the point of Homer’s long, detailed lists of Greeks and Trojans: names, deeds, parents, brothers, spouses, children, lovers, skills, bad hair, swift feet, words, and weapons. The poem about mass death insists on human particularity.
