Since the crisis hit in 2008, we have heard much about Greece's economic travails. This year, the world watched as Syriza dramatically took a stand against austerity - and, after months of attrition, finally capitulated. But this is not the whole story. As Karen Van Dyck shows in this anthology of the very best contemporary Greek poetry, the last decade has also seen a remarkable flowering of new creative talent. These are poems concerned with the personal and the political; with the small revelations of gardening and the viciousness of streetfights; with bodies, love, myth, migration, and economic crisis.
About the Author
Karen Van Dyck is the Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Literature at Columbia University. She writes on modern Greek and diaspora literature and on gender and translation. She has edited or co-edited several volumes of poetry, includingA Century of Greek Poetry(2004);The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present(2010); and, for NYRB Poets,Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry(2017). She is also the translator of Margarita Liberaki’sThree Summers, an NYRB Classics title. Her translations have appeared inBrooklyn Rail,Asymptote, andThe Baffler.
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