It is a poem written on the ferry boat of return from the island of Paros to Piraeus. I was sitting on the bench under the open sky looking at the sea and I felt the summer ending, as the day was fading. I had with me "A Little History of the World" of Ernst Gombrich. And I started gliding, as I was keeping notes, from his description of what the ancient Egyptian paintings were showing, to other details of scenes and senses of the everyday life, ancient and contemporary, always the same in this geographical area, in this part of the world.
Phoebe Giannisi on "Paros-Piraeus: Mini-History of the World" |
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Gabrielle Bates: "An Invitation for Many Lives"
"Literature is a living collaboration with readers, which is endlessly frightening and beautiful to me. I personally experience the book as an excavation of hauntings around privacy, connection, vulnerability, ignorance, desire, goodness, domestication, violence, sexuality, and God, among other things."
via NAPKIN POETRY REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Rita Wong (Vancouver, BC, unceded Coast Salish territories) on Ecopoetry Now
"In the context of a colonized society that reduces freedom into superficial consumer choices or bluntly eliminates that freedom through systemic violence, writing can question unjust hierarchies and unthinking habits that need to be reconsidered. It can make space for the imagination to move swiftly as dragonflies at dusk, or as easily as otters floating affectionately together. It makes room for a world where every creature has a place, every life form matters." |
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