Ars Poetica: Poetry within Poetry and other poems

A bilingual edition of Andonis Fostieris' poems, translated by Irene Loulakaki-Moore, highlights the craft, risks, and subversive power of poetry. Fostieris' poetics surpasses Modernism and proposes a new approach to the role and function of contemporary poetry, while also proposing a coherent conceptualization of the role of language and its relation to the truth. He aims to bring the written word closer to the mental experience, feeling, or thing in itself, inviting readers to join in the game of signification.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 133 pages
Publication date: 15 June 2023
Publisher: Colenso Books

Here is the rephrased text:

Poems on the craft, the risks, and the subversive power of poetry, selected by the translator in conjunction with the author from the Greek Collected Edition of Andonis Fostieris poems published in 2021 (Apanta ta Poiimata 1970–2020). A bilingual edition with the Greek text from that edition and facing English translations by Irene Loulakaki-Moore. In her Introduction, the translator writes:

If Fostieris draws the readers attention to the alphabet, its sounds, and the processes of syllabification, reading, and writing, in other words, to the "materiality of the text" and the "mechanisms of writing," it is because, like many poets of his generation, he is suspicious of the ways in which vocabularies create descriptions of the world and ourselves, instead of adequately or inadequately expressing them. The socio-political, economic, and intellectual developments in Greece and elsewhere in the 1970s rendered obsolete previous generations' search for the "lost center" and the grand narratives that validate it. Unlike the Modernist poet-authority, Fostieris, does not stand in the center of his creation, like a unique owner of truth and sole creator of meaning. Fostieris poetics surpasses Modernism and marks a turn towards the Post-modern, constituting a new approach to the role and function of contemporary poetry, while it also proposes a coherent conceptualization of the role of language and its relation to the truth. One could say that Fostieris and the poets of his Generation attempted what Surrealism (another avant-garde movement that met with a great deal of resistance in Greece) had attempted: the secularization of inspiration. The transformation of inspiration after the Surrealists made available for everyone what had been the privilege of the poet-initiate, in line with L.

The transformation of inspiration after the Surrealists made available for everyone what had been the privilege of the poet-initiate, in line with L.

Weight: 230g
Dimension: 155 x 233 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912788293