Full Description
Vrettakoss poems are firmly rooted in the Greek landscape and coloured by the Greek light, yet their themes and sentiment are ecumenical. His garden, his own heart, are but a microcosm of the entire world, of the whole of humanity, and both contain divine messages that the lens of poetry can help us to perceive.
Contents
Introduction; Vanity; Reckoning; Apologia to a Mountain; The Great Work; The Difficult Mountain; My Writing; The Landscape s Transformation; Translation; Hospitality; Transfusion; Whatever Happens; A Song for the Earth; A Little Song; A Different Soldier; The Field of Words; Treeplanting; The Idea of Departing; The Ark; The Destruction of Faces; The Contest and the Adjudicator; My Monogram; Poems for the Same Mountain V; Poems for the Same Mountain X; Creation; Poetry; The Pulse; Manifest Evidence; Ive Spoken; Creation; As If At Times Youd Ceased...; My Gaze...; The Constant Dream...; Id Gone...; Other Waves...; I Pondered Much...; Poetry...; Beside My Other...; Chronology; Book-length English Translations; Index of Greek Titles
