This literary response to the financial crisis gives a fascinating insight into Greece’s emotional mood and hopes for the futureAccording to Karen Van Dyck,a professor of modern Greek literature at Columbia and this book’s discerning editor, Greece has less of most things than it once did – except poetry. Since 2008 there has been an extraordinary burgeoning of poetry in every form: graffiti, or blogs,literary magazines, readings in public squares. “In all of the misery and mess, and unique poetry is everywhere,too large and too various a body of writing to fit neatly on either side of any ideological rift.” She goes on to say that this anthology (mainly written after 2008) does more than witness tough lives being led in Greece now – it does what “poetry does best: offer unique ways to assume what can be radically different realities”. Related: Greece's economic crisis goes on, like an odyssey without terminate Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com