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Anthologie de Kiki Dimoula
Malgré une construction souvent labyrinthique, un foisonnement d'idées, un vocabulaire audacieux jonglant entre l'ancien, le châtié et l'argotique, cette poésie reste incroyablement proche de l'ordinaire et même parfois du trivial. Ainsi cette pensée poétique, travaillée, parvient à ne plus appartenir exclusivement à un univers culturel particulier. Sa vibration émotionnelle lui donne une résonance universelle.
The Brazen Plagiarist
A moving collection of poems by internationally acclaimed Greek poet Kiki Dimoula, brilliantly translated into English
Lethe's Adolescence
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Grief, Identity, and the Arts
Grief, Identity and the Arts addresses the interplay between grief and identity in a broad range of artistic disciplines, historical periods, and geographical areas.
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Night Talks
Translated by Rika Lesser. Written after the tragic and unexpected loss of her young husband, this spare and startling collection by celebrated Swedish poet and novelist Elisabeth Rynell offers a raw elegy in which everything lived--a visit with a therapist, a memory of lovemaking, a venture into the wilderness--becomes an expression of grief. Unflinching in their refusal of irony, these poems are elegantly rendered in Rika Lesser's translation, which is the first appearance of Rynell's verse in English. "Rika Lesser's fine translation recreates the demanding original with sympathetic resonance and perfect pitch." --Richard Howard "Elisabeth Rynell's Night Talks--which can be read as either ...
The Lesbian Lyre
Hailed by Plato as the “Tenth Muse” of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of women and men alike, she is the namesake lesbian. What’s left of her writing, and what we know of her, is fragmentary. Shrouded in mystery, she is nonetheless repeatedly translated and discussed – no, appropriated – by all. Sappho has most recently undergone a variety of treatments by agenda-driven scholars and so-called poet-translators with little or no knowledge of Greek. Classicist-translator Jeffrey Duban debunks the postmodernist scholarship by which Sappho is interpreted today an...
On the Arc of Light and Silence
I took up writing, out of a personal need. To enhance my pace, even a bit. To understand the dimensions of the world, the responsibility of the Sun. To withstand the deluge of light and the wisdom of silence. To listen to the great poets raising life to its height. To hear the agonizing voice of Dionysios Solomos crying out loud for a free motherland! To hear Elytis apologizing for his century to the light of the Aegean. To hear the blind Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges shouting his belief that: ‘I lost nothing apart from the insignificant surface of things’. To hear Embeirikos reveal that words are the true mainland of poets. It is them I am occupying myself with, I wrestle them and being wrestled by them, endlessly. And so, poetry was born..."A house, a crossroads and a chapel and it is there I always return, to dine, to ask, to receive communion". Elias Margiolas
Antiquity Matters
A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes This book is the culmination of more than sixty years of a writing life during which Frederic Raphael has returned again and again to the literature and landscape of the ancient world. In his new book, Raphael deploys his renowned wit and erudition to give us a vivid mosaic of the complexities and contradictions underlying Western civilization and its continuing influence upon contemporary society. Tackling a broad range of topics, from the presumed superiority of democracy to the momentum behind today's gay rights movement, Raphael's often daringly heterodox view of the Greek and Roman world will provoke, surprise, and, at the same time, entertain readers. He shows how the interplay of fiction and reality, rhetorical aspiration and practical cunning, are threaded through modern culture.
