| Poems (1945-1971) Contributor(s): Sachtouris, Miltos (Author), Emmerich, Karen (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0976395061 ISBN-13: 9780976395065 Publisher: Archipelago Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2006 Annotation: "Poems (1945-1971)" contains selections from the first seven volumes of Miltos Sachtouris' work. The collection traces the poetic development of a writer deeply affected by the turmoil of his times, from his emergence on the Greek literary world as a young man of 25, with a series of poems written during the Axis occupation of Greece, to a volume published thirty years later during the military junta of 196774. This bilingual edition of "Poems (1945-1971)" is almost a historical document, chronicling one poet's response to three decades of intense social and political upheaval in a nation experiencing the successive horrors of occupation, civil war, and military dictatorship. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Literary Criticism | European - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 889.134 |
| LCCN: 2006004151 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.04" W x 7.6" (0.76 lbs) 235 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poems (1945-1971), first published in 1978 and now in its eighth edition in Greece, contains work from the nine volumes Miltos Sachtouris wrote during the most productive period of his poetic career. The first of these volumes was written during the Axis occupation of Greece, and the last was published thirty years later during the military junta of 1967-74. Part poetic auto- biography, part historical document, this collection thus chronicles one writer's reaction to three decades of intense social and political upheaval in a nation experiencing the successive horrors of occupation, civil war, and military dictatorship. Evocative and deeply moving, Sachtouris's poetry builds up, block by linguistic block, an unforgettable vision that speaks even to those who inhabit worlds different and distant from his own. |