The Axion Esti - Hardcover
The Axion Esti is probably the most widely read volume of verse to have appeared in Greece since World War II and remains a classic today. Those who follow the music of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis have been especially drawn to Odysseus Elytis's work, his prose is widely considered a mirror to the revolutionary music of Theodorakis. The "autobiographical" elements are constantly colored by allusion to the history of Greece, thus, the poems express a contemporary consciousness fully resonant with those echoes of the past that have served most to shape the modern Greek experience.
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Odysseus Elytis, one of the eminent contemporary poets of Greece, was born in Heraklion, Crete, in 1911. The poems in his many books have been translated into eleven languages.
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"The Axion Esti [is] the work on which Elytis's reputation rests, and which almost certainly won him the Nobel Prize."
—New York Review of Books
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- PublisherAnvil Press Poetry
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0856460648
- ISBN 13 9780856460647
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages104
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The Axion Esti
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Anvil Press Poetry
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. hardback, slim octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved but age-toned dust jacket, wrap around band still in place, the text is clean and unmarked, 103pp. Seller Inventory # 267945
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