Death is part of life
-ON THE SHORTLIST FOR THE 2024 ‘THE READER’ MAGAZINE AWARDS
A poetic composition that attempts to encompass three kinds of mourning.
A poetic composition that attempts to encompass three kinds of mourning.
I. Ata: an episode with a simple exit
Hear my trembling, grasp it, speak it;
smell my sluggish tongue. Behold my
rough, ambitious destiny:
once I embodied the lover
and now I fight the seduction,
emphasising that I have become
food for your sacred, lustful rage.
Once saved by the embrace of your voice,
I had silenced the hollow beats.
The truth, pierced and melodious, will be slow in coming.
So now live out your beginning
and curse me with your blessing
as soon as the ambivalence is discerned
from the mountains may wolves descend
and tear me apart, rotten bachelor;
may I be struck from ranks and lineages.
Leave now a lock of your hair and a
white flower for the dead: for me.
Author:
Panos Stassinopoulos
Text editing:
Maria Simeonidou
Cover artwork:
Dionysis Kavallieratos
Date of publication:
20/03/2023
Pages:
136
Dimensions:
12.3 x 19.2 εκ.
ISBN:
978-960-572-553-2
Publication:
2023
Categories:
Literature, Books, Poetry
"Απ’ τη μεγάλη λίστα των πρωτοεμφανιζόμενων, ο Πάνος Στασινός υπήρξε μια αποκάλυψη με το _Ο θάνατος είναι μέσα στα πράγματα_, αποκάλυψη για την τόλμη του, για την ποιητική του ευφυΐα, για την παιγνιώδη του διάθεση, για τα σονέτα και τα σαν σονέτα, για τον στίχο «Αργήσω δεν αργήσω, θα έρχομαι»."
– Άθως Δημουλάς, Περιοδικό Κ"Με προηγμένη τεχνική ακροβάτη και ρυθμική αγωγή χορευτή και ρυθμική αγωγή χορευτή ο Στασινός εναλλάσσει την ανισοσύλλαβη ρίμα με την πεζογραφημένη της υπόκρουση…"
– Ηρακλής Λογοθέτης, Documento
Panos Stassinopoulos
Panos Stassinou was born in 1996 in Athens, where he lives and works. He studied Art History and History of Philosophy.
