Results for "Van Dyck, Karen"

A tender story about three sisters coming of age in Greece over the course of three summers, now available after being out of print for over twenty years. Three Summers is the story of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a big old house s... Read More about Three Summers

In this pioneering study of contemporary Greek poetry, Karen Van Dyck investigates modernist and postmodernist poetics at the edge of Europe. She traces the influential role of Greek women writers back to the sexual politics of censorship under the dictatorship (1967-1974). Reading the effects of c... Read More about Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry Since 1967 (Reading Women Writing)

In this pioneering study of contemporary Greek poetry, Karen Van Dyck investigates modernist and postmodernist poetics at the edge of Europe. She traces the influential role of Greek women writers back to the sexual politics of censorship under the dictatorship (1967-1974). Reading the effects of c... Read More about Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry Since 1967 (Reading Women Writing)

The English debut of one of Greece's most radical and original poetic voices. " ... an explosive cadence ... Khaleed's sentiment toward the would-be aesthetes seems clear: 'Fuck off, flower poets.'"--David Wallace, The New Yorker " Jazra Khaleed] stands up to fascism by writing and performing Greek-... Read More about The Light That Burns Us

In HERS, Maria Laina, one of Greece's most important living poets, taking inspiration from Sappho's women-centered past and Cavafy's homoerotic future, presents an ascetic yet autoerotic treatise on of love at odds with societal norms. In these still lifes of the interior, Maria is between worlds. S... Read More about Hers

A remarkable collection of poetic voices from contemporary Greece, Austerity Measures is a one-of-a-kind window into the creative energy that has arisen from the country's decade of crisis and a glimpse into what it is like to be Greek today.The 2008 debt crisis shook Greece to the core and went on ... Read More about Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry (NYRB Poets)