Ars Poetica (Paperback)
Language: Greek
Published by Colenso Books, 2023
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Paperback. Poems on the craft, the risks and the subversive power of poetry, selected by the translator in conjunction with the author from the the Greek Collected Edition of Andonis Fostieris poems published in 2021 (Apanta ta Poiimata 19702020). A bilingual edition with the Greek text from that edition and facing English translations by Irene Loulakaki-Moore. In her Introduction the translator writes:- If Fostieris draws the readers attention to the alphabet, its sounds and the processes of syllabification, reading and writing, in other words to the materiality of the text and the mechanisms of writing, it is because, like many poets of his generation, he is suspicious of the ways in which vocabularies create descriptions of the world and ourselves, instead of adequately or inadequately expressing them. The socio-political, economic and intellectual developments in Greece and elsewhere in the 1970s rendered obsolete previous generations search for the lost centre and the grand narratives that validate it. Unlike the Modernist poet-authority, Fostieris, does not stand in the centre of his creation, like a unique owner of truth and sole creator of meaning Fostieris poetics surpasses Modernism and marks a turn towards the Post-modern, constituting a new approach to the role and function of contemporary poetry, while it also proposes a coherent conceptualization of the role of language and its relation to the truth One could say that Fostieris and the poets of his Generation attempted what Surrealism (another avant-garde movement which met with a great deal of resistance in Greece) had attempted: the secularization of inspiration The transformation of inspiration after the Surrealists made available for everyone what had been the privilege of the poet-initiate, in line with Lautreamonts injunction: Poetry should be made by everyone. Not just by one. With his prolonged hesitation between sound and meaning (Paul Valery) Fostieris wants to bring the written word closer to the mental experience, the feeling or the thing in itself. He does not deny the referential function of language, he only exhibits his suspiciousness towards the authority that says, my language is true. By doing so he cleverly abstains from imposing on the readers his version of meaning, inviting them instead to join in the game of signification. Poems on the craft, the risks and the subversive power of poetry, selected by the translator in conjunction with the author from the Greek Collected Edition of Andonis Fostieris poems published in 2021. Ars Poetica is a bilingual volume with the Greek text from that 2021 edition and facing English translations by Irene Loulakaki-Moore. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Ars Poetica (Paperback)
- Author
- Andonis Fostieris
- Publisher
- Colenso Books
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- new
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- Paperback
- Language
- Greek
- ISBN 10
- 1912788292
- ISBN 13
- 9781912788293
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