Affirmation

by Vlavianos, Haris; Karavanta, Mina; Longley, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781904556657
• ISBN10: 1904556655
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-20
• Publisher: Dedalus Pr

Summary

This edition contains the first major selection of poems in English translation from one of the best-known names in contemporary Greek poetry--Haris Vlavianos, who was born in Rome in 1957 and grew up in Athens.

Table of Contents

Foreword
The Diary of a Poem	p. 1
An Evening without an Eve	p. 3
Affirmation	p. 5
Contemplating the Object	p. 8
The Poem of an Other Poetics	p. 11
The Archaeology of a Morning	p. 13
Who?	p. 15
Temperate Memory	p. 17
Unwritten	p. 18
Vous Etes plus Beaux que Vous ne Pensiez	p. 19
Silence	p. 20
The Veil	p. 23
In the Arcades (of History)	p. 25
The Angel of History	p. 27
August Meditations	p. 30
Hotel Insomnia	p. 32
Pascal's Will	p. 34
Autumnal Refrain	p. 36
Sonnet	p. 38
De Imagine Mundi	p. 40
Esthetique de la Beaute	p. 42
New Realism	p. 44
Adieu	p. 47
Apologia Pro Vita Mea	p. 49
Sturm Und Drang	p. 51
Descent	p. 52
Pieta	p. 55
Pentimento	p. 57
Gloriana	p. 61
Our Face	p. 63
In Triumph	p. 65
A Woman with a Past	p. 67
Closure	p. 71
A Brazilian Tale	p. 79
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