Before Lyricism by Eleni Vakalo and translated by Karen Emmerich

This is poetry from Greece.

Before Lyricism by Eleni Vakalo translated by Karen Emmerich is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Greek. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781937027704E12.

Before Lyricism, by Eleni Vakalo and translated by Karen Emmerich from Greek, brings Greek poetry into English through Eleni Vakalo before lyricism, image-thinking, and the work of reaching a poem before the poem becomes convention. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem begins making its own weather. I would read it for image, prelude, form, and the lucid strangeness of lyric being rebuilt from below, not as a fixed lesson about a nation, period, or school. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Before Lyricism belongs in the translated poetry library because it is essential for contemporary Greek poetry’s experimental and visual intelligence.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.