Book record
Chinese Notebook
Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Translated from Greek by John Sakkis
Chinese Notebook, by Demosthenes Agrafiotis and translated by John Sakkis from Greek, brings Greek poetry into English through Demosthenes Agrafiotis's notebook form, China as encounter, and the fragmented attention of travel without tourism. 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 notebook, China, fragment, and the alertness of looking across cultural and linguistic distance, 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. Chinese Notebook belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds a Greek experimental work of travel, notation, and cross-cultural perception.
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Greek
- Country
- Greece
- ISBN
- 9781933254685