Poetry. Translated from the Greek by John Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis. Composed in a red-and-black notebook that was made in China, Demosthenes Agrafiotis's CHINESE NOTEBOOK addresses the act of (mis)communication in a world held sway to consumer capitalism and globalization. The conceits of abstraction, fragmentation and disjunction are employed here as a means to an end, as the language of corporate legalese begins to build, through accretion and overlap, into a personal metaphysics. Within these short, spare poems, Agrafiotis demonstrates the ways that language can formulate network--or, in his words, "ensembles of meaning interacting with the flow of things."

Author City: Athens GRE

Demosthenes Agrafiotis is an experimentalist who deftly combines poetry, painting, photography, multimedia, and performance with the written poem. He has authored more than 13 books of poetry and essays and exhibited his photography, paintings, drawings, and installations internationally. He is a professor of sociology at the National School of Public Health in Athens, Greece.

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