Description
Poetry. Winner of the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. Translated from the Greek by John Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis. Demosthenes Agrafiotis's MARIBOR is a book of thoughts, impressions, expressions and reflections from his travels to Hesperia (Western Europe) in the period 1980-90. The book is concerned with the constantly elusive identity of Europe as a geographic place, as a cultural gamble, as a historical problem, as a horizon for the future of humankind.
"MARIBOR gives us both artifact—of the ephemera of communication, institutions, power—as well as blueprint for imagining an 'alphabet of the future.' A master of the contemporary hermetic, Agrafiotis can bring to light in one stroke both the evanescence and endurance of the writing on the wall."—Eleni Stecopoulos
Author Bio
Demosthenes Agrafiotis is active in the fields of poetry/ painting/ photography/ intermedia/ installations and their interactions. He has a special interest in the relation between art and new technologies. Three of his books have been translated into English by John Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis: "NOW, 1/3" & THEPOEM (BlazeVOX [books], 2012), CHINESE NOTEBOOK (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), and MARIBOR (The Post-Apollo Press, 2010), winner the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. His recent books are +-graphies (Veer Books, London), Betises (Editions Fidel Anthelme X, Marseille, in French), and ArtxArt (Redfoxpress, Ireland). He is based in Athens, Greece.
Author City: Athens GRC