Selected Poems
Published on 3. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-618-5048-30-3 (ISBN)
Description
Vrettakoss poems are firmly rooted in the Greek landscape and coloured by the Greek light, yet their themes and sentiment are ecumenical. His garden, his own heart, are but a microcosm of the entire world, of the whole of humanity, and both contain divine messages that the lens of poetry can help us to perceive.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Greece
Illustrations
1 black and white photo
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
150 gr
ISBN-13
978-618-5048-30-3 (9786185048303)
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Persons
Nikiforos Vrettakos was born on January 1, 1912 in the village of Krokees near Sparta. In a literary career lasting some sixty years, he published over eighty-five collections of poetry, eight prose works, a long critical study of Nikos Kazantzakis and wrote innumerable articles and essays for periodicals and newspapers. In Greece, he received more awards than any other poet of his generation, including three State Prizes for Poetry. In 1987, he was elected to the Academy of Athens in the Chair of Literature. He died in his ancestral home in Ploumitsa on August 4, 1991 while watching the sun rise over his beloved Mount Taygetus.
Content
Introduction; Vanity; Reckoning; Apologia to a Mountain; The Great Work; The Difficult Mountain; My Writing; The Landscape s Transformation; Translation; Hospitality; Transfusion; Whatever Happens; A Song for the Earth; A Little Song; A Different Soldier; The Field of Words; Treeplanting; The Idea of Departing; The Ark; The Destruction of Faces; The Contest and the Adjudicator; My Monogram; Poems for the Same Mountain V; Poems for the Same Mountain X; Creation; Poetry; The Pulse; Manifest Evidence; Ive Spoken; Creation; As If At Times Youd Ceased...; My Gaze...; The Constant Dream...; Id Gone...; Other Waves...; I Pondered Much...; Poetry...; Beside My Other...; Chronology; Book-length English Translations; Index of Greek Titles