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AmorgosNikos GatsosTranslated by Sally Purcell![]()
Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (64 pages) (Pub. Sep 1998) 9780856463020 Out of Stock
from Amorgos In the backyard of the embittered no sun rises In the backyard of the embittered night is king In the backyard of the embittered the eye has run dry In the backyard of the embittered grass comes up black And if you are thirsty for water we shall milk a cloud But it was a wind that went, a lark that perished Translated by Sally Purcell Nikos Gatsos’s profoundly mysterious and magnetic poem Amorgos, named after a Greek island he never visited and written during the Nazi occupation, is the single work on which his reputation rests. It is a wonderful incantation on the theme of loss and hope – a unique blend of surrealism, symbolism and folk song – lyrical and erotic, sometimes celebratory, sometimes bitter. It was much admired by the Nobel laureates Odysseus Elytis and George Seferis, and was hugely influential on the postwar generation of Greek poets. However, after its publication in 1943, Gatsos abandoned poetry, and wrote only popular songs, for which he was later renowned. |
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