Battered Guitars: Poems and Prose - Softcover

Kostas Karyotakis; Κώστας Καρυωτάκης

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070442519X ISBN 13: 9780704425194

Publisher: University of Birmingham, 2006

Synopsis

The early decades of the twentieth century were particularly chaotic in Greece, but gave rise to the major work of Kostas Karyotakis (1896-1928), a poetry both lush and precise, both tragic and ironic. sometimes considered post-Romantic or an heir to the symbolists, sometimes as either a modernist or a pre-cursor of th post-modern, Karyotakis fits uneasily into our categories. He created an art that, though rooted in the personal and the political, moves far beyond the boundaries of his own life and time. In this work poetry is the necessary but reluctant, almost involuntary response to the swirl around us. "We are just some battered guitars," he wrote. "When the wind blows over us,/it awakens verses and dissonant sounds/on strings that droop like watch chains."

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Birmingham
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 070442519X
• ISBN 13: 9780704425194
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 223