The slow horizon that breathes / Dimitra Kotoula ; translated from Greek by Maria Nazos ; with an introduction by A.E. Stallings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kōtoula, Dēmētra, author.

Contributor:

Stallings, A. E. (Alicia Elsbeth), 1968- writer of introduction.

Nazos, Maria, translator.

Language:

English

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Subjects (All):

Greek poetry--21st century.

Greek poetry.

Greek poetry--Translations into English.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xiii, 160 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : World Poetry Books [2023]

Language Note:

Includes poems in Greek with translations into English.

Summary:

In The Slow Horizon That Breathes, a selection from her first three books, published between 2004 - 2022, Kotoula--a poet born after the military Junta--engages modern Greek struggles, including troubled relationships, the financial crisis, motherhood, and the act of writing. Translated by Maria Nazos in close collaboration with the author, and introduced by A.E. Stallings, this volume presents to English readers Kotoula's masterful transformation of private demons into a public resonance. -- Amazon.

Contents:

Tender lavish power : the poetry of Dimitra Kotoula / A. E. Stallings

Landscapes I

Causa artis I

Blue

The body of dead Christ in the tomb

Case study IV (all the house of Israel)

Head of satyrs

Matter of life and death

Case study V (on ethics)

Manifesto

Case study

Causa artis 2

Case study VI (on poetry)

Landscapes V

Landscapes VI

Landscapes VII

The calling

Three notes for one melody

Case study VII (the poet)

Cavafy tries to forget

Young erotic

Moods X

Erotikon I

Moods XV

Prayer, or the apple, 7/28/2013

Mother and daughter or landscape in motion

The poems of yes and no

Causa artis 3

Escape, or the words.

ISBN:

9781954218161

1954218168

OCLC:

1414395335