Παρουσίαση
Nikos Engonopoulos is surely one of the most curious figures in twentieth-century poetry. An ambidextrous painter-poet and early convert to surrealism, Engonopoulos joined forces with Andreas Embirikos and Odysseus Elytis in the late 1930s to change the course of Greek poetry forever.Bruised by the reception in the Athens press of his first two books, Engonopoulos spent the next 40 years in semi-seclusion, evolving a theater of gesture and sign in which were acted out the drama of twentieth-century geopolitics. For Greece, this meant military dictatorship, foreign invasion and occupation, a brutalizing civil war and subsequent Cold War lockdown. On the stage of Engonopoulos's poetry these events appear in costumes from other times and places, mostly the former Greco-Balkan world that reached from the Rio dei Greci in Venice to the ancient city of Sinope on the Black Sea.
Acropolis and Tram, Engonopoulos' first collection in English, spans his career from the early experiments in surrealist disassociation to the late elegies for a lost world. It also includes the long poem "Bolivar," his covert ode to the Greek resistance first published in 1945. (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
IntroductionI. From Do Not Speak to the Driver (1938)
Osiris
Maria of the Night
Perhaps
Amazons
II. From The Clavichords of Silence (1939)
Vulture and Guard
Aubade
A Trip to Elbasan
Incident
The Life and Death of Poets
The Shipwrecks' Cabal
III. Bolivar (1944)
Bolivar, a Greek Poem
IV. From The Return of the Birds (1946)
The Final Appearance of Judas Iscariot
Theano
Predator 1748
Dance Stately and Sentimental
"Souvenir de Constantinople"
First Light
Four and Ten Subjects for a Painting
Exemplar of Flight
Let's Say...
V. From Eleusis (1948)
Caffes and Comets After Midnight
Hawk
Poetry 1948
Odysseus Laertes
VI. From In the Flowering Greek Tongue (1957)
Arkesilas
Mercurios Bouas
For Rent
Human Goodness
VII. From In the Valley of the Rosegardens (1978)
On the Byways of Life
Close Your Eyes, and all that Ancient Life will Pass Before You...
The Ballad of Isidore (Sideris) Steikowitz
Pandora's Box
Concerning the Holy Jews...
The Trumpet
A Poem About Georg Trakl
City of Light
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