During the dictatorship (1967–74), Maria Laina and a group of other young poets spearheaded a new kind of elliptical poetry that grappled with the confusion and censorship of the times by imagining alternative sexualities. In the context of experimentalists of the previous postwar generation (Kiki Dimoula, Miltos Sachtouris, Eleni Vakalo) as well as her own contemporaries who view the white space as “a room of her own” (Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Rhea Galanaki, Jenny Mastoraki), Laina stands out for her autoerotic aesthetic.
Karen Van Dyck on "Hers" (excerpt) |
|
|
