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Violets for a Season
Tasos Leivaditis
Translated from Greek by N. N. Trakakis
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.
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Red Dragonfly Press
- Language
- Greek
- Country
- Greece
- ISBN
- 9781945063145