TWO
BOOKS OF POETRY BY
DIMITRIS KAKAVELAKIS
IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
TRANSLATED BY PHILIP RAMP
PYGMY FOREST PRESS
THE ISLAND - ANTIBODIES
I read the island several imes - finally in Greece, a new way of writing, a new use of language. clear, poilshed, well-knit, terse, laconic, decisive, to the point, consistent, aggressive.
No idle chitchat and philosophizing. Dense with meaning, genuine experiences, enigmatic, abrubt, vibrant, in short, contemporary.
Each of these poems is enthralling. they win the reader over the immediately endowed with the critical ability to get straight to the point, be drastic and uncontaminated.
I want to stress the poetic ethos which never varies throughout the poems and note as well the wealth of enigmas and symbols and I think everyone who reads THE ISLAND will feel as I do!
T A K I S S I N O P O U L O S, poet
About the Editor and Poet Leonard Cirino
Cover Illustration "Indecision:" by Jane Priser of Colorado
AWARENESS
The marine lions
lay claim ot power
over delirium
They travel in a vessel
of the sunken values of silence
trample the coral
rim of the island
and lay siege to groans
aware duty's been done.
The island suffers
from gathering of notables
from mystic guided tours
from shadows of pillage
In plantations of silence
the sunken voice
silently sighs hymns
of visions
airships planted in hanging gardens
DIMITRIS KAKAVELAKIS
IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
TRANSLATED BY PHILIP RAMP
PYGMY FOREST PRESS
THE ISLAND - ANTIBODIES
I read the island several imes - finally in Greece, a new way of writing, a new use of language. clear, poilshed, well-knit, terse, laconic, decisive, to the point, consistent, aggressive.
No idle chitchat and philosophizing. Dense with meaning, genuine experiences, enigmatic, abrubt, vibrant, in short, contemporary.
Each of these poems is enthralling. they win the reader over the immediately endowed with the critical ability to get straight to the point, be drastic and uncontaminated.
I want to stress the poetic ethos which never varies throughout the poems and note as well the wealth of enigmas and symbols and I think everyone who reads THE ISLAND will feel as I do!
T A K I S S I N O P O U L O S, poet
About the Editor and Poet Leonard Cirino
Cover Illustration "Indecision:" by Jane Priser of Colorado
AWARENESS
The marine lions
lay claim ot power
over delirium
They travel in a vessel
of the sunken values of silence
trample the coral
rim of the island
and lay siege to groans
aware duty's been done.
The island suffers
from gathering of notables
from mystic guided tours
from shadows of pillage
In plantations of silence
the sunken voice
silently sighs hymns
of visions
airships planted in hanging gardens