The brazen plagiarist by Kikē Dēmoula and translated by Cecile Inglessis Margellos, Rika Lesser

This is poetry from Greece.

The brazen plagiarist by Kikē Dēmoula translated by Cecile Inglessis Margellos, Rika Lesser is published by Yale University Press. This is a Book originally written in Greek. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780300141399E12.

The brazen plagiarist, by Kikē Dēmoula and translated by Cecile Inglessis Margellos, Rika Lesser from Greek, brings Greek poetry into English through Kikē Dēmoula’s plagiarism, irony, absence, and the brazen metaphysical thefts a poem commits against silence. 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 absence, irony, theft, and the beautifully sly intelligence of feeling thinking about itself, 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. The brazen plagiarist belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a major modern Greek work of wit, grief, and abstraction.

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