Violets for a Season by Tasos Leivaditis and translated by N. N. Trakakis

This is poetry from Greece.

Violets for a Season by Tasos Leivaditis translated by N. N. Trakakis is published by Red Dragonfly Press. This is a Book originally written in Greek. This was published in 2018.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781945063145E12.

Violets for a Season, by Tasos Leivaditis and translated by N. N. Trakakis from Greek, brings Greek-language poetry from Greece into English through seasonal brevity, tenderness, and the Greek lyric tradition as something gathered in small blooms. 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 violets, season, memory, and the grace of poems that do not need to overstay, 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. Violets for a Season belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives readers a quiet selected path into Tasos Leivaditis’s emotional range.

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