{"product_id":"year-of-the-labyrinth-paperback","title":"Year of the Labyrinth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian Sneeden\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this folk-horror pastoral, poet Brian Sneeden threads paths of myth and ritual, fatherhood and climate collapse, ghost stories and grief.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribed by Kiki Petrosino as \"a beautiful invasion,\" \u003ci\u003eYear of the Labyrinth \u003c\/i\u003edraws upon Sneeden's experiences as a translator and multilingual writer working in language preservation to explore boundaries between speech and ritual, myth and ecology. \"In these fiercely imagined poems,\" Petrosino writes, \"our speaker passes between seemingly fixed physical and conceptual worlds--human\/animal, past\/present, forest\/field. This voice finds lyric power in liminal spaces--in 'the pollen line' and 'a change of wind.' With the speaker, we travel through mirrors to places where you might grasp an animal if only 'by the curve of its name, ' and where 'a bird that ha[s]n't yet been invented' may sing. This poet's imagination makes porous the landscapes we thought were familiar.\" Kelly Link, in her judge's citation for the Barthelme Prize, writes: \"How wonderful it is, the marriage of economy and the arcane, as if a story could be a kind of lozenge that, slipped under the tongue, estranges us from our idea of how both life and language work. Every sentence has the effect of an acupuncturist's needle, small pricks that let in strange energy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Sneeden\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, translator, and editor based in southern Scotland. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003ci\u003ePoetry, Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other magazines. Translations of his poetry have been published internationally in Arabic, Italian, Modern Greek, and Serbian. Last City, his debut collection, appeared in the 2018 Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series. His translations of poetry from Modern Greek have received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, a PEN\/Heim Translation Grant, and other recognitions. He is the translator of four collections of poetry, including Phoebe Giannisi's\u003ci\u003e Cicada\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently, \u003ci\u003eGOATSONG\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a senior lecturer in creative writing and publishing at Manchester Metropolitan University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68418878374109,"sku":"9780887487446","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/4cFnpNk49G9780887487446.webp?v=1793782049","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/year-of-the-labyrinth-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}