Acropolis And Tram Poems by Nikos Engonopoulos and translated by Martin McKinsey

This is poetry from Greece.

Acropolis And Tram Poems by Nikos Engonopoulos translated by Martin McKinsey is published by Green Integer. This is a Book originally written in Greek. This was published in 2008.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933382371E12.

In Acropolis And Tram Poems, Nikos Engonopoulos arrives in English through Martin McKinsey’s translation from Greek, with a lyric field shaped by Acropolis, tram, surreal juxtaposition, and modern Greek city life. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the book should not be reduced to a country-language-press summary. I would read it for atmosphere and attention first: what kind of silence it makes, what kind of body it imagines, what kind of world becomes visible when the poem turns its head. The strongest value of this entry is that it gives readers permission to approach difficulty as texture rather than a locked door. Acropolis And Tram Poems belongs in the library as a book of encounter, not simply information.

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