The House with the Scorpions: Selected Poems and Song-Lyrics of Mikis Theodorakis

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$15.00
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Fomite
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Pages
320
Dimensions
6.0 X 9.0 X 0.72 inches | 1.04 pounds
Language
English
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Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781947917132
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About the Author
When someone asked Mikis Theodorakis where he got his inspiration for his music, he answered: "It's very simple. I never thought of my music as anything but a way to clothe Greek poetry." Theodorakis is known to the world as a composer. To the English-speaking world, unfortunately, he is known principally for his film scores, particularly the score of Zorba the Greek, and a few of his popular songs. To the Greeks, Theodorakis is the man who combined the greatest poetry of their country with his own prodigious melodic gifts to create a river of unforgettable songs. Few think of him as a poet, and yet he wrote fine poems, some of which became the lyrics of his most famous songs.
Gail Holst-Warhaft is a poet and translator and has worked as a journalist, broadcaster, prose writer, academic, and musician. Among her many publications are Road to Rembetika, Theodorakis: Myth and Politics in Modern Greek Music, The Collected Poems of Nikos Kavadias, Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature, The Cue for Passion: Grief and Its Political Uses, I Had Three Lives: Selected Poems of Mikis Theodorakis, and Penelope's Confession. She has published translations of Aeschylus and several of Greece's leading novelists and poets. Her poems and translations have appeared in journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Her Kavadias translations won the Van der Bovenkamp award from Columbia University's Translation Center, and her poem "Three Landscapes" won the Poetry Greece Award in 2001. The Fall of Athens, her most recent collection of poetry, essays, and stories about Greece, is forthcoming from Fomite Press.