Poems (1945-1971)
Poems (1945-1971), first published in 1978 and now in its eighth edition in Greece, contains work from the nine volumes Miltos Sachtouris wrote during the most productive period of his poetic career. The first of these volumes was written during the Axis occupation of Greece, and the last was published thirty years later during the military junta of 1967-74. Part poetic auto- biography, part historical document, this collection thus chronicles one writer's reaction to three decades of intense social and political upheaval in a nation experiencing the successive horrors of occupation, civil war, and military dictatorship. Evocative and deeply…
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Weitere Autoren: Emmerich, Karen (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-935744-40-5
- EAN: 9781935744405
- Produktnummer: 20040730
- Verlag: Steerforth Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 235 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'855 KB
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Miltos Sachtouris (1919-2005), a native of Athens, Greece, was one of the leading Greek poets of the postwar era. He received the Second National Poetry Award in 1962, the First National Poetry Award in 1987, the Order of the Phoenix in 1995, and the Grand State Literature Prize in 2003 for his collected works. Karen Emmerich's translations from the Greek include books by Margarita Karapanou, Amanda Michalopoulou, Ersi Sotiropoulos, Yannis Ritsos, and Vassilis Vassilikos. Her translations of Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. She has received translation grants and awards from PEN, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Modern Greek Studies Association. She is on the faculty of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.
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