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Ars Poetica - Poetry within Poetry and other poems
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Ars Poetica - Poetry within Poetry and other poems
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Poems on the craft, the risks and the subversive power of poetry,
selected by the translator in conjunction with the author from the
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 reader’s 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 centre” and the grand narratives that validate it. Unlike
the Modernist poet-authority, Fostieris, does not stand in the
centre 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 which 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 Lautréamont’s injunction: “Poetry should be made by
everyone. Not just by one.” With his “prolonged hesitation
between sound and meaning” (Paul Valéry) Fostieris wants to
bring the written word closer to the mental experience, the feeling
or the thing in itself. He does not deny the referential function
of language, he only exhibits his suspiciousness towards the
authority that says, “my language is true”. By doing so he
cleverly abstains from imposing on the readers his version of
meaning, inviting them instead to join in the game of
signification.
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