a welcome to anne carson

[a piece in greek, including translations of three poems by anne carson: "viii. click" and "xxi. memory burn" from autobiography of red, and "ode to sleep" from decreation - a small welcome, as she arrives in greece next week, invited by the 1st tinos international literary festival]

[photo: p.i., tinos, 2001]

oblivion: the space of possibilities

[Some words -in Greek- and images by Palle Nielsen, the Danish artist, some of whose works were exhibited last year in the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens.]

99 years ago

[A piece in Greek, briefly commenting, on the one hand, on the modernist avant la lettre 1911 sonnet, "Phaliro", by Greek poet Lorentzos Mavilis, who was probably the Master of the Greek sonnet, and a staunch supporter of the 'demotic', whilst a member of parliament - and, on the other, on the sonnet per se, as poetic form.]

happy new year

[a piece in greek, linking a poem by takis papatsonis with a fragment by rainer maria rilke, taken from ulrich baer's book, the poet's guide to life: the wisdom of rilke]

spirals

[a text in greek, about my experience of watching the polish film the manuscript found in saragossa -based on jan potocki's novel- and two junkies in the trolley bus afterwards]

summer snapshots

[a piece in greek. photo by p.i., viii.2009]

saturday / spring

[A piece in Greek, weaving together the Saturday afternoon when I saw Let the right one in, with Niki-Rebecca Papageorgiou's astonishing 'prose poem fairy tales', John Felstiner's two books on Paul Celan, and a Greek version of Tadeusz Rozewicz's poem 'Pigtail'. The photo was taken in Cracow in May 2008.]

'time for reading'

[a piece in greek, moving from the anonymous poster -'time for reading'- that appeared in athens after the december 2008 riots, to a celebration of the merits of both john gray's straw dogs and rebecca solnit's hope in the dark - and of the fact that both were recently translated in greek]

happy new year

[greek version -based on the english translation by maya peretz- of a poem by the polish poet halina poswiatowska: as a small new year's present to readers known and unknown.]

for the solution

[a piece in greek, commissioned by lifo free press weekly. written on 8 december 2009 -the riots in athens had started in the night of 6 december- it principally expressed my consternation at the impasse that violence, under all its guises, represents.]

[not?] a chance meeting

[a piece in greek -commissioned by 'kathimerini' daily for the 'comment on a theme' column of its saturday 'life & arts' section- weaving the rich intellectual and social activist heritage described in rachel cohen's a chance meeting with one of its vindications: barack obama's recent election as president of the u.s.a.]

robert frank

[a piece in greek, about robert frank - on the occasion of the 50th anniversary edition of the americans.]

suddenly

[a translation in greek of sylvia plath's 'sheep in fog', chanced upon in the faber & faber 2009 diary.]

thom gunn: 9 poems

[greek translations of nine poems by thom gunn, originally published in 'poiesi' poetry journal.]

robert creeley: 14 poems

[translations in greek of fourteen poems by robert creeley, originally published in 'poiesi' poetry journal.]

andrew motion, 'independence'

[greek translation of andrew motion's 'independence', originally published in 'poiesi' poetry journal.]