Ballad for the Unsung Poets of the Ages
Kostas Karyotakis
Selected Poems and Prose
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Release Date: 15/01/2024
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Translator: Simon Darragh
Label: Aiora Press
Contributors: Simon Darragh (Translated by)
Language: Greek
Publisher: Aiora Press
Selected Poems and Prose
"That one came alone, from some place else. He came slowly, following his own path. A white angel with jet-black wings!"Kostas Karyotakis is the poet most emblematic of the turbulent interwar period in Greece. Though traditional in form, usually with end-rhyme and regular metres, Karyotakis' poetry is modern in content, often pessimistic and bitingly satirical. His writing combines reverie with sarcasm, a stifling sense of everyday reality with poignant irony. This is verse that is both piercing and resonant.