Brazen Plagiarist - Selected Poems

A moving collection of poems by internationally acclaimed Greek poet Kiki Dimoula, brilliantly translated into EnglishKiki Dimoula's poetry-the most praised and prized in contemporary Greek literature-is a paradox, both mysteriously intricate and widely popular. Her magic lens defamiliarizes all that is familiar, compressing distances between far-flung realms, conflating concrete and abstract, literal and metaphorical, physical and metaphysical. Exacting and oracular at once, Dimoula superimposes absurdity on rationality, caustic irony on dark melancholy.This first English translation of a wide selection of poems from across Dimoula's oeuvre brings together some of her most beguiling, arresting, and moving work. The demands on her translators are considerable. Dimoula plays with the Greek language, melds its levels of diction, challenges its grammar and syntax, and bends its words by twisting their very shape and meaning. Cecile Inglessis Margellos and Rika Lesser, Dimoula's award-winning translators, have re-created her style's uncanny effect of refraction: when plunged into the water of her poetry, all these bent words suddenly and astonishingly appear perfectly straight.

Product details

• Authors: Kiki Dimoula, Dimoula Kiki
• Assisted by: Rika Lesser (Translation), Lesser Rika (Translation), Cecile Inglessis Margellos (Translation), Margellos Cecile Inglessis (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.05.2014
• EAN: 9780300205732
• ISBN: 978-0-300-20573-2
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 30 mm
• Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters; The Margellos World Republic of Letters; World Republic of Letters (Yale)
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets