Epitaphios Kārlis Vērdiņš

Epitaphios Kārlis VērdiņšOn 10 May 1936 the 27 year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Salonica tobacco factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos. Dedicated to the heroic workers of Salonika and drawing on the fourteenth century Greek Orthodox Epitaphios Thrinos, the poem combines Mary's lament at Christs tomb

the wedding at Charles Street Carnival

‘Word Blindness’

10/11 Spring 2001/ Summer 2001

and unorthodox forays into the “narco-imaginary”—the habits and conventions surrounding literary and cultural representations of drug use—attend to the residue of transient impressions that remain

was the winner of a Jamaican National Literature award

Emergency Window features new poems alongside excerpts from two recent sequences

the East Indian pandit and the English Anglican priest

most recently Leaf

is thrown out and overlooked in the contemporary world of liberal capitalism

with appreciation by Brahim Sadi

Irish history

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