Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

Desperate wandering around the mute scenery of abandonment. A love that persists in breathing in the shady space of loneliness, waiting for some light to come in of the closed window left behind by him when he left. Merciless daughter of boundless silence ,a feather trampled by invisible bodies object of wasted desire lashing the body...

Η μετάφραση της ποίησης θεωρείται από τα πιο δύσκολα μεταφραστικά εγχειρήματα. Ο μεταφραστής, στο απαιτητικό και πολύπλευρο έργο του, οφείλει να είναι ικανός να προσεγγίσει σωστά το πρωτότυπο ποίημα, αλλά και να κατορθώνει να αποδίδει στο ακέραιο το πνεύμα του. Η δυσκολία της ποιητικής μετάφρασης δεν έγκειται μόνο στην μεταφορά του κειμένου σε άλλη γλώσσα, αλλά και στην απόδοση της πυκνής, περιεκτικής και συχνά συνδηλωτικής, γεμάτη συνειρμούς, γραφής. Το Διεθνές Εργαστήρι Μετάφρασης Ποίησης, η ετήσια συνάντηση Αγγλόφωνων και Ελληνόφωνων ποιητών και μεταφραστών, ασχολείτα...

Sexual desire, political ambition, artistic need: Cavafy has a singular apprehension of how these forces make themselves felt in individual lives. Their inexorability both enthralls and dismays him, and one of the things that gives the poetry its rare steadiness is his ability to penetrate past circumstance into what is sensed as fate - sensed not only by the poet but by his protagonists and his readers also. Everywhere in these poems there is reverie and hedonism, irony and antiquarianism, but we can never identify the poet himself as a pure and simple daydreamer or hedoni...

Το Κινεζικό Τετράδιο του Δημοσθένη Αγραφιώτη (εκδόσεις Ερατώ 1988) μετά τη μετάφραση και έκδοσή του στα αγγλικά (Chinese Notebook, Ugly Duckling Presse 2010, σε μετάφραση των John Sakkis και Angelos Sakkis) και στα γαλλικά (Cahier chinois, Les Editions [0] 2008, σε μετάφραση της Michele Valley), δημοσιεύεται από τις εκδόσεις Vakxikon.gr σε δίγλωσση έκδοση, στα κινέζικα και αγγλικά σε ψηφιακό βιβλίο/e-book. Έτσι, ο τίτλος, που προέρχεται από το παραδοσιακό κινεζικό σημειωματάριο (μαύρο- κόκκινο), όπου και πρωτογράφτηκαν τα ποιήματα του βιβλίου, συναντά, έστω και μερικά, την...

Certain of the poems in this book were written literally with the blood of the man who - on August 13th 1968 - made the valiant attempt to free Greece from the ridiculous Chief of the Colonels' dictatorship. In the course of the court martial proceedings, when Alexandros Panagoulis was sentenced to death (twice!), he taunted his would-be executioners: "I know what verdict is in store for me. The most beautiful swan-song of the freedom-fighter is the deathrattle in front of the firing squad of a tyranny..." Throughout five black years in total isolation, buried alive in a...

This collection includes fifty poems divided in four parts: A. Down to the Earth (fifteen poems), B. Every detail tells a story (fifteen poems), C. Sparingly (ten poems), D. The vote is yours (ten poems). Instead of a prologue there is a poem entitled "I have something to say"and instead of an epilogue there is another poem entitled "Comments in the margin". The poems are referring to contemporary individual, social and multi-and cross-cultural issues with a self-sarcastic and optimistic spirit, seeking to establish a critical and humanistic approach to the blessing gift...

Travels and wanderings in the world of poetry, in eight different languages (english, french, italian, swedish, romanian, albanian, bulgarian, greek). May our journey be good!... K.K. Ταξίδια περιπλάνησης στον κόσμο της ποίησης, σε οχτώ διαφορετικές γλώσσες (αγγλικά, γαλλικά, ιταλικά, σουηδικά, ρουμανικά, αλβανικά, βουλγαρικά, ελληνικά). Καλό μας ταξίδι!... Κ.Κ.

The Castle Towers and myths, Emblems of conquerors and icons of saints. Their descendants on the markets Count the souls of sacrifice, For centuries now What repaets itself Is history's wonder At the demolition of the temples. Beyond the Castle The sea wreaks revenge On those who enclosed in walls Never travelled further than Apollo's temple

The book "Fallen Paradise Holy Matter" is the second part of the poetic trilogy by Dimitris Kakalidis. The trilogy also includes the books "The Concealed Lotus"of Manifestation" and "Logos the Third". This specific edition is bilingual; the English translation is on the recto and the original poems in Greek are on the verso side, rendering the books even more appealing to readers that wish to deepen into the concepts and meanings through the poet’s original word.

Vassiliki Ergazaki, as an authentic poetess, opens her embrace and while breathing the clear air of moments, she shares with the reader her own notion about what is behind and beyond phenomena.

To visit Greece according to T.S. Eliot, is "to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time". Poetry written in Greek constitutes the longest uninterrupted literary tradition in the Western world. It is Greek poetry that has given the world the various poetic genres in which Westerners have expressed their emotions and many of their noblest thoughts to the present day. In this book, the reader is invited to discover -or rediscover- Greece through its poetry, and to enter into the world from which have emerged those ideals of democracy, reason, and free...

The publisher presents this first bilingual selection of Melissanthi's poetry to honour the 80th birthday of an eminent poetess, who for over fifty-five years holds a special place in Greek literature. Since the publication of her (collected) "Poems" in 1974, Melissanthi's leading role has been forcefully reaffirmed. Her importance for the Greek letters is best demonstrated by the volume dedicated to her by the Society of Greek Archives for Literature and History in 1985. [...]

Hiroshima zero hour. Mankind fell at its lowest moral level in Hiroshima, not the bomb. Yes, remember Democritos, the ancient Greek wise who -while experimenting- faced the reality that he had to stop further cutting the material, for, the small piece in front of him was the nuclear of the matter, which if cut an unclenched power would be launched. So, he did not only stop his further experiment, but he named this small mass: an atom, meaning in Greek: a=not and tome=cut. Meaning: Not to be cut. [...]