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Before Lyricism
Eleni Vakalo
Translated from Greek by Karen Emmerich
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.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Greek
- Country
- Greece
- ISBN
- 9781937027704