Neo-Hellene Poets: An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry: 1750-2018

While many serious readers in Canada will have been exposed to the ancients, and to the works of some, high-profile modernists-like Cavafy, Seferis and, perhaps, even Ritsos -most modern Greek poetry has remained largely out of reach for English-speaking monoglots. But that is changing quickly, chiefly as the result of the efforts of one man.Enter Manolis Aligizakis, a Greek-Canadian poet of considerable lyrical achievements of his own. Quite apart from having published many volumes of his own much-celebrated poems, Manolis has, for years now, devoted himself to preparing high-quality and nuanced translations of the works of modern Greek poets. He has to this point given us his take mainly on the above-mentioned and better-known writers (for which we are all grateful).Now, however, he has graduated to a truly Heraclean undertaking, one that opens the door for English-speaking readers to the work of many highly respected Greek poets who, it is to be regretted, are essentially unknown outside their own country. Neo-Hellene Poets: An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry, 1750-2018 is a skeleton key to the poems of 60 Greek moderns whose writings, we can now easily see, deserve a wider readership. The deft and skilled translations that make up the Anthology are helpfully supplemented by brief but informative biographical profiles of the subject poets, putting them on the map for Englishspeaking readers in a way that has never been done before.

Author: Manolis Aligizakis, Constantine Cavafy, Yannis Ritsos
Publisher: Libros Libertad Publishing Ltd.
Published: 08/31/2018
Pages: 818
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.36lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.62d
ISBN13: 9781926763514
ISBN10: 1926763513
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Anthologies (multiple authors)

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