Impulses - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Sometimes words are ghosts dancing with myth and memory. Greek-Canadian poet Manolis demonstrates this in Impulses, his new collection of poems. His poetry springs from a congenital intimacy with a culture and its history. In essence, we are before a poetic glance that is also a revolving metaphor encircling feelings from a Mediterranean philosophy.
Poets tend to be witnesses of paradoxes and to recreate them; it’s not a compromise between logic and the rational, it’s an absolute nouveau reality. With this new book, Manolis tells us that poetry is an affirmation of the soul, a witness for the dream. Fine poetry, there is.

~ Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto

Impulses conjures a mosaic of old-world images, tiled with colours and dilemmas from the present. Manolis ransacks his classical Greek roots and the cosmopolitan now, to find some meaning for his modern existence. He wrestles with such timeless subjects as the value of human life, innocence and aging.
These poems move with contrasting moods, as eroticism is juxtaposed with isolation, and intimacy is wedged between dark humour and sheer outrage.

~ Apryl Leaf

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