Poetry department
TWO
BOOKS OF POETRY BY DIMITRIS KAKAVELAKIS
THE
ISLAND
- ANTIBODIES
I read the island several imes - finally in Greece, a new way of
writing, a new use of language. Clear, poilshed, well-knit, terse,
laconic, decisive, to the point, consistent, aggressive. No idle
chitchat and philosophizing. Dense with mea ning, genuine experiences, enigmatic,
abrubt, vibrant, in short, contemporary. Each of these poems is
enthralling. they win the reader over the immediately endowed wih the
critical ability to get straight to the point, be drastic and
uncontaminated. I want to stress the poetic ethos which never varies
throughout the poems and note as well the wealth of enigmas and
symbols..and I think everyone who reads THE ISLAND will feel as I do!
TAKIS SINOPOULOS, poet
About
the Editor and Poet Leonard Cirino
Cover Illustration "Indecision:" by Jane Priser of Colorado
AWARENESS
The marine lions
lay claim ot power
over delirium
They travel in a vessel
of the sunken values of silence
trample the coral
rim of the island
and lay siege to groans
aware duty's been done.
The island suffers
from gathering of notables
from mystic guided tours
from shadows of pillage
In plantations of silence
the sunken voice
silently sighs hymns
of visions
airships planted in hanging gardens
James Joyce
Ulysses
 Although Joyce only began
writing Ulysses in 1914, he had been laying the plans for it since
1906. His intention was to create a fictional Everyman-Leopold Bloom-to
rival the classical figure of Homer's Odysseus (aka Ulysses) [Odyssey
resources], which Joyce admired as the most well-rounded portrait
of a human in literature. But he took the tribute a step further by
making Bloom's adventures parallel Ulysses's, on a much smaller scale.
The action takes place in 18 chapters spaced approximately one hour
apart, starting at 8:00am on Thursday 16 June 1904, and ending in the
early hours of June 17. (This date is celebrated by Joyceans as
Bloomsday.) The central parallel to Homer is that Bloom's wife Molly--
like Penelope in Homer-- is being courted by a suitor, the dashing
Blazes Boylan.
In order to win her back, Bloom must negotiate twelve trials-- his
Odyssey.....Text: Jorn Barger
Continue to
Internet Ulysses by James Joyce edited by Jorn Barger
Poetry
research
department
Poetry and Truth
Dichtung und Wahrheit von J.W.von Goethe
 Certain writers have invented concrete semiotic
practices that may prove more effective than psychoanalytic discourse
in diagnosing the constellation of mute forces that
always accompany life and threaten it from within.Literature offers
a manner of diagramming the potential forms of resistance, or "lines
of flight," which may be virtual to these new arrangements. In his
autobiography, Dichtung und Wahrheit ("Poetry and Truth"), Goethe left
an unforgettable picture of a happy childhood. Here are set out with
acute psychological insight the emotional complexities of his bond with
Cornelia, which found expression in numerous portrayals of the
brother-sister
relationship in his works; .(lang.german).............
Poetry
&
Music
department
Thomas
Elliot
On Poetry and Poets
 We may say that the duty of the
poet, as poet, is only indirectly to his people: his direct duty is to
his language, first to preserve, and second to extend and improve. In
expressing what other people feel he is also changing the feeling by
making it more conscious. He is making people more aware of what they
feel already, and therefore teaching them something about themselves.
But he is not merely a more conscious person than the others; he is
also individually different from other people, and from other poets
too....
Poetry
&
Science
Department
Valéry, Paul
Theory
of
Poetry
 French poet, essayist, and critic, whose ceased to
write verse for twenty years for scientific endeavors. Valéry was a
member of the 19th-century poetic school of Symbolism, and its last
great representative. Throughout his life Valéry filled his private
notebooks with observations on creative process and
his own methods of inquiry. He insisted that the mental process of
creation was alone important - the poems was a by-product of the
effort.
"Enthusiasm is not an artist's state of mind", stated Valéry. T.S.
Eliot has compared Valéry's analytical attitude to a scientist who
works in a labor- atory "weighting out or testing the drugs of which is
compounded some
medicine with an impressive name."
Paul Valéry
Archive
The island
of Xiphos
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EZRA POUND
ABOUT
EZRA
IN
GERMAN
LANGUAGE
 The range and brilliance of Pound's
contacts in all the arts convinced him that London
was to be the centre of a new Renaissance. He cast himself in the role
of impresario,
editor, and advocate, contributing to Yeats's mature style, discovering
and promoting
Joyce and Eliot, advising an American businessman on the modern works
of art to buy in
London. But his hopes foundered in the waste of the First World War,
and the consequent
disappointment was to colour the rest of his life's work. In the short
term it provoked
his first major poems, 'Homage to Sextus Propertius' (1919) and Hugh
Selwyn
Mauberley
(1921). These two ironic sequences represent a contrast. The free-verse
'Homage', an
ironic persona poem based on the lyrics of the first-century Roman
poet, is a defence of
the private and erotic in poetry against the imperialistic jingoism
promoted by war. Mauberly,
in tautly rhymed satirical stanzas, depicts the war as the Götterdammerung
of an
emasculated and philistine culture, condemned by the limitation of its
own horizons. The
poem is also evidence of Pound's close working relationship with Eliot,
whose taste it
reflects (cf. the 'Sweeney' poems of the same period). The relationship
was to culminate
in the crucial part played by Pound in cutting The Waste Land (1922).
Mauberley
has been described as Pound's farewell to London. In 1920 he left,
spending four years in
Paris then moving on to Italy, where he settled in Rapallo in 1924. He
was now
concentrating on The Cantos, his 'poem including history', and
the first section
was published in 1925. Continue..Text
is
from
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in
English
 HANS JONAS
The
Imperative
of
Responsibility
He is best known for his influential work The
Imperative of Responsibility (German 1979, English 1984). His
work centers on social and ethical problems created by technology.
Jonas
insists
that
human
survival
depends
on
our
efforts
to
care
for
our planet and its future. He formulated a new and distinctive supreme
principle of morality, "Act so that the effects of your action are
compatible with the permanence of genuine human life".
He also wrote extensively on Gnosticism,
for
which
he
is
almost
equally
well
known,
interpreting
the
religion
from
an existentialist philosophical viewpoint.
Jonas' philosophy was influenced by the process philosophy and process theology of Alfred North Whitehead.
(Μεταφρασμένο
έργο
του
στα
ελληνικά)
KONSTANTINOS KAKAVELAKIS
GYÖRGY LIGETI AVENTURES AND NOUVELLES AVENTURES:
 Τhe study of Konstantinos Kakavelakis refers to the
life and the work of the Hungarian postwar composer György Ligeti.
Kakavelakis examines thoroughly especially the musical twofold dramatic
act Aventures & Nouvelles Aventures (Libretto and Music)
which marks an important crossroad in the history of avantguard music.
The adventures and the new adventures of the human
beings are tangled to the ambiguous woof of obscurity and
underhandedness which are involved in human communication. The
unrevealing intentions of the protagonists are divided into different
networking scenes.
The dynamics of conversation seem to be transfigured in the machination
of competition springing out from a continuous keep ahead to eschaton.
Other Links
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Study
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Women
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