Marvelous Things Overheard takes its title from a collection of ancient rumours about the lands of the Mediterranean. Mlinko, who lived at the American University of Beirut and travelled to Greece and Cyprus, has penned poems that seesaw between the life lived in those ancient and strife-torn places, and the life imagined through its from The Greek Anthology to the Mu'allaqat. Throughout, Mlinko grapples with the passage of time on two her own aging (alongside the growing up of her children) and the incontrovertible evidence of millennia of human habitation.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 2014.
ISBN: 9780374534806. 112 pp.
Softcover. Very good.