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The life and work of the late poet Manolis Anagnostakis (1925-2005) casts a long shadow over the literary, social, and political landscape of post-war Greece. The essays in this volume essays as well as the presentation of hitherto untranslated material from his oeuvre finally places this towering figure in the company of other more well-known Greek poets of the twentieth century.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Editor's Note on Translations
Introduction by Vangelis Calotychos
Chapter 1 "I am left-handed, essentially"
MANOLIS ANAGNOSTAKIS (interview conducted with the poet by the author Michel Faïs in 1992; translated into English and adapted by the poet Yiorgos Choullaras)
Chapter 2 Manolis Anagnostakis and the Love of Writing by Liana Theodoratou
Chapter 3 "Sense Variously Drawn": The (Visual) Poetics of Miltos Sachtouris and Manolis Anagnostakis by Karen Emmerich
Chapter 4 Theodorakis Takes on Anagnostakis: Reinventing the Lyric by George Syrimis
Chapter 5 Anagnostakis Revisited and Revised: The Politics of Reading and Re-Reading by Elsa Amanatidou
Chapter 6 "The Issue Is What You Say Now": Lives Of The Poets: Manolis Anagnostakis by Yiorgos Chouliaras
Chapter 7 Manolis Anagnostakis and the Modernist Discourse of Silence by Marinos Pourgouris
Chapter 8 Poetry's Incalculable Account by Stathis Gourgouris
Chapter 9 Farewell to the Revolution! by Vassilis Lambropoulos
Chapter 10 Self-Reading, Self-Anagnosis: The Progressive Ethos of the Late Anagnostakis by Vangelis Calotychos
Chapter 11 ?? ?e??????? '68 - '69 / The Margin '68 - '69 (1979) by Manolis Anagnostakis
(translated into English by George Fragopoulos)
Chapter 12 ?G. / P.S. (1983) by Manolis Anagnostakis (translated into English by George Fragopoulos & Gerasimus Katsan)
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Vangelis Calotychos
Summary
The life and work of the late poet Manolis Anagnostakis (1925-2005) casts a long shadow over the literary, social, and political landscape of post-war Greece. The essays in this volume essays as well as the presentation of hitherto untranslated material from his oeuvre finally places this towering figure in the company of other more well-known Greek poets of the twentieth century.
