Austerity Measures : The New Greek Poetry EPUB
by Karen Van Dyck
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'I remember caresses, kisses, touching
each other's hair. We had no sense that
anything else existed'
- Elena Penga, 'Heads'
'Nothing, not even the drowning of a child
Stops the perpetual motion of the world'
- Stamatis Polenakis, 'Elegy'
Since the crisis hit in 2008, Greece has played host to a cultural renaissance unlike anything seen in the country for over thirty years. Poems of startling depth and originality are being written by native Greeks, migr s and migrants alike. They grapple with the personal and the political; with the small revelations of gardening and the viciousness of streetfights; with bodies, love, myth, migration and economic crisis.
In Austerity Measures, the very best of the writing to emerge from that creative ferment - much of it never before translated into English - is gathered for the first time. The result is a map to the complex territory of a still-evolving scene - and a unique window onto the lived experience of Greek society now.
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:07/04/2016
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- ISBN:9780241250631
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:352 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:07/04/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780241250631