{"product_id":"before-lyricism","title":"Before Lyricism","description":"\u003cp\u003eEleni Vakalo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2018 Best Translated Book Award for Poetry, \u003cem\u003eBefore Lyricism\u003c\/em\u003e includes six book-length poems: \"The Forest\" (1954), \"Plant Upbringing\" (1956), \"Diary of Age\" (1958), \"Description of the Body\" (1959), \"The Meaning of the Blind\" (1962), and \"Our Way of Being in Danger\" (1966). Each of these, apart from “Plant Upbringing,” was published as a separate book, which Vakalo herself designed. (“Plant Upbringing” was originally included in the volume \u003cem\u003eWall Painting,\u003c\/em\u003e of which Vakalo later repudiated all but this single long poem.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Vakalo, these poems formed a larger, accretive whole, which she titled \u003cem\u003ePrin Apo Ton Lyrismo (Before Lyricism)\u003c\/em\u003e. By bringing these poems together under a single cover, \u003cem\u003eBefore Lyricism\u003c\/em\u003e allows us to see the complex web of intertextual relations that bind these books together. Meanwhile, by bringing these poems into English, this volume will enrich not only our knowledge of this key period in Vakalo’s career, but English-language readers’ understanding of modern Greek poetry as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Boekhandel Perdu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61800743174474,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/2782\/9974\/files\/BeforeLyricism.jpg?v=1778412082","url":"https:\/\/boekhandelperdu.nl\/products\/before-lyricism","provider":"Boekhandel Perdu","version":"1.0","type":"link"}