Winner of the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus, these experimental
linked poem-threads move across time, linking a young Cypriot to
ancestors, contemporaries, and descendants through striking,
disparate polyphony. In this bilingual collection of linked poems,
Kefala creates a tapestry of motifs that transcend time and
identity across early 20th Century Cyprus, 16th Century Scotland, a
sailor on Christopher Columbus' ship La Pinta, and more. As the
poem threads draw together, it is as if the protagonist, in his
travels through the twentieth century, encounters Odysseus,
Cervantes, Columbus, Rembrandt, and others, all moving in
multidimensional synchronicity. In this way, the readers take part
in the production of meaning by pulling the threads together,
stitching together their own reading of the story. Through the
reading of these threads, time remains fluid, creating a masterful
declaration about the function of poetry: perhaps history is
nothing more than the presence of innumerable human voices, some
more and some less powerful, coexisting in an eternal present.
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