Mirror for You by Elias Petropoulos and translated by John Taylor

This is poetry from Greece.

Mirror for You by Elias Petropoulos translated by John Taylor is published by Cycladic Press. This is a Book originally written in Greek. This was published in 2023.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78064687533E12.

Mirror for You, by Elias Petropoulos and translated by John Taylor from Greek, brings Greek-language poetry from Greece into English through reflection, address, and the old lyric problem of what a mirror gives back to the one who asks. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for mirror, gaze, selfhood, and the brittle intimacy of speaking toward another person, not as a fixed lesson about Greece. 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. Mirror for You belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives the collection a direct but unsettled Greek voice of encounter.

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.

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