![]() ![]() The three books that make up the trilogy, Z213:Exit (2010), Nyctivoe (2001), and The First Death (2000), published by Shoestring Press, were written in reverse order, as the publication dates of the English translations of the original Greek texts indicate. ![]() POENA DAMNI (Pain of Loss) is a trilogy which traces, in a series of episodes of various poetic styles, the pain that the damned souls suffer in Hell when experiencing the loss of the vision of God. But the poet is reader-friendly enough to leave precious sign-posts so that we lose neither our way, nor our prerogative to impose a meaning upon the broad vista of this spectacular feat in existential poetry. ![]() Through its labyrinthine narratives and elliptical monologues the reader is invited to discover the meaning and the plan behind what, at first sight, may seem a meandering text. This is certainly true about Dimitris Lyacos’s poetry. (Available on Amazon.)Īccording to Raman Selden we can no longer talk about the meaning of a text without considering the reader’s contribution to it. ![]() by Shorsha Sullivan), Shoestring Press, (Nottingham, England), 2010. Z213: Exit (Poena Damni) by Dimitris Lyacos (trans. ![]()
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