Τρακάκης Νικόλαος Ν.
Ο Νικόλαος Τρακάκης γεννήθηκε στη Μελβούρνη της Αυστραλίας, με καταγωγή από την Κρήτη. Γράφει για τη φιλοσοφία της θρησκείας. Επίσης γράφει ποίηση με πιο πρόσφατη την ποιητική συλλογή "From Dusk to Dawn" (2012) και έχει επιμεληθεί την έκδοση "Southern Sun, Aegean Light: Poetry of Second-Generation Greek-Australians" Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2011.
The Blind Man with the Lamp
Λειβαδίτης Τάσος 1922-1988
Denise Harvey (2014)
"The Blind Man with the Lamp", originally published in Greek in 1983, is the first English translation of a complete collection of poetry by Leivaditis. A pioneering book of prose-poems, Leivaditis here gives powerful voice to a post-war generation divested of ideologies and illusions, imbued with the pain of loss and mourning, while endlessly questing for something wholly other, indeed for the holy Other. A substantial introduction by the translator, N. N. Trakakis, situates and reviews the poet and his work within his times with special reference to this present collec...