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Greece's
Nobel laureate, Odysseus Elytis, wrote of these poems,
«They are full of Greece, a handful of sea-pebbles that are the
sensitivities and meanings granted by contact with Greece's nature.»
The
poet moved to
the island of Páros with his wife, the photographer Elizabeth
Carson, in 1970, and they have lived there ever since. His early love
of classical Greece has developed naturally into a love of the island's
nature, wild and farmed, and it's seasonal rhythms. A New Yorker,
he has combined his native voice with that of a renowned immemorial
past and traditional near-present. In free verse, blank verse, elaborate
rhymed stanzas, lyric, elegy, ode, and epigram, he has sought, amid
the tragic ambiguities of human existence, to apprehend a true voice
of praise. |
