Of children and adolescents by S. S. Charkianakēs and translated by Peter Bien

This is poetry from Greece.

Of children and adolescents by S. S. Charkianakēs translated by Peter Bien is published by Red Dragonfly Press. This is a Book originally written in Greek. This was published in 2013.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781937693336E12.

Of children and adolescents, by S. S. Charkianakēs and translated by Peter Bien from Greek, brings Greek-language poetry from Greece into English through childhood, adolescence, and the uncertain moral weather around growing into language. 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 children, thresholds, tenderness, and the difficulty of protecting innocence without simplifying it, 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. Of children and adolescents belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives Greek poetry a human-scale entry into memory and formation.

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