IN THIS WEBPAGE OF HELLENIC POETRY WE CONTINUE OUR JOURNEY WITH THE WRITINGS OF ANASTASIOS DRIVAS. THIS TIME  HIS ESSAY: SCULPTURE, PUBLISHED IN Ο ΛΟΓΟΣ, ΧΡ. Α’, ΤΧ. 1 (ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΣ 1930) WILL TAKE US TO ATHENS AND PARIS AND TO THE SCULPTURE OF ΜΠΕΛΛΑ ΡΑΦΤΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ.   ΟΣΟ ΠΙΟ ΠΟΛΥ ΜΕΛΕΤΑ ΚΑΝΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΕΡΓΟ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΟΥ ΔΡΙΒΑ ΟΛΟ ΚΑΙ  ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΕΡΟ ΣΥΝΕΙΔΗΤΟΠΟΙΕΙ ΠΟΣΟ ΤΡΟΜΑΧΤΙΚΗ ΑΠΩΛΕΙΑ...

    IN THIS WEBPAGE OF HELLENIC POETRY WE CONTINUE WITH THE WRITINGS OF ANASTASIOS DRIVAS, WHICH  WILL TRAVEL US TO VARIOUS PLACES. WE CONTINUE WITH HIS ESSAY: ΜΙΑ ΕΠΕΤΕΙΟΣ Ο ΓΛΥΠΤΗΣ ΜΠΟΥΡΝΤΕΛΛ , PUBLISHED IN ΛΟΓΟΣ IN OCTOBER 1930. IT WILL TAKE US TO PARIS  AND TO THE SCULPTURE OF A. BOURDELLE WHO HIS WIFE WAS GREEK. ΕΝΑΣ ΧΡΟΝΟΣ ΣΥΜΠΛΗΡΩΘΗΚΕ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΗΜΕΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΘΑΝΑΤΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ...

  IN THIS WEBPAGE OF HELLENIC POETRY THE WRITINGS OF ANASTASIOS DRIVAS WILL TRAVEL US TO VARIOUS PLACES. WE WILL START WITH HIS ESSAY: SCULPTURE IN 100 YEARS (1830-1930), PUBLISHED IN PROTOPORIA IN MAY 1930. IT WILL TAKE US TO TINOS AND ANDROS AND TO THE SCULPTURE OF HALEPAS AND TOMBROS.     1. YANNOULIS CHALEPAS   The Sleeping Female at the tomb of...

   ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΣΕΛΙΔΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΥΤΗ Η HELLENIC POETRY ΑΠΟΔΙΔΕΙ ΦΟΡΟ ΤΙΜΗΣ ΣΤΟΝ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΟ ΔΡΙΒΑ (1899-1942) ΠΟΥ ΠΕΘΑΝΕ ΑΠΟ ΑΣΙΤΙΑ ΣΤΑ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΚΑΤΟΧΗΣ. Ο Σφακιανάκης, στέρεος πεζογράφος, και ειλικρινής, όταν ήθελε να κρύψει κάτι επαναλάμβανε μέσα απ’ τα δόντια του μια ακαταλαβίστικη συλλαβή, φτο, φτο, φτο… και πάντα συμπλήρωνε: «άστα, είμαστε ένα σνάφι…», και στην περίπτωση Δρίβα ήταν κατηγορηματικός: «τον αφήσαμε όλοι να ψοφήσει...

   IN THIS WEBPAGE HELLENIC POETRY PRESENTS SOME ARTICLES, POEMS AND BOOK REVIEWS FOR THE HELLENIC POET NICOLAS CALAS (1907-1988) Iannis Xenakis Polytope Mycenes Alpha Psichramis Fotis Iannis Xenakis Polytope Mycenes Alpha 1978 mp4 Polytope (Mycenes Alpha) – Hybrid Cinema (1978) Duration: 93:38 Directed by Fotis Psichramis Mycenae-Alpha is an electroacoustic work that Xenakis composed in 1978 as part of an installation of lights, movement...

          [Chorus] I was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, alone and unceremoniously …Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, when life was taken from me [Verse 1] Our tree was full and green, I had to leave it The sadness was overwhelming, To be alone beneath it The sun came down hot and hard, I could never sleep To disappear was the...

    GREECE AND WE, THE GREEKS BORN AFTER THE II WORLD WAR, ARE VERY LUCKY BECAUSE  IN THE 1920’s A PLETHORA OF POETS (BELONGING TO THE SO CALLED 1st POST WAR GENERATION) WERE BORN. WE ARE ALSO EXTREMELY LUCKY THAT TWO OF THEM ARE STILL ALIVE AND KICKING: MR NANOS (ΠΟΥ ΤΟΝ ΕΧΟΥΜΕ ΣΤΑ ΩΠΑ ΩΠΑ HERE IN HELLENIC POETRY) AND TITOS PATRIKIOS.  ...

     IN THIS WEBPAGE WE CONTINUE WITH METAL MUSIC AND HELLENIC POETRY OF TWO POETS BORN IN THE SECOND DECADE OF THE 20th CENTURY. THESE ARE, TAKIS SINOPOULOS AND NIKOS GATSOS.       Nox Arcana: Night of the Wolf         1. TAKIS SINOPOULOS (1917-1981)   Greece’s Poet-Chronicler Takis Sinopoulos (1917-81): An Interview  (by E. D. KARAMPETSOS & DONALD D....

     IN THIS WEBPAGE WE PRESENT THE POEM “THE BURNING MAN” BY TAKIS SINOPOULOS, AND QUITE A FEW BURNING MEN, MOSTLY THIBETIAN MONKS. THERE HAVE BEEN NEARLY 150 SELF-IMMOLATIONS BY THIBETIAN LIVING IN “CHINA” SINCE A WAVE OF FIERY PROTESTS BEGAN IN 2009.   BUT FIRST LET US START WITH THREE MEDITERRANEAN BURNING MEN. A GREEK, A SYRIAN AND AN ITALIAN ONE.   IN...

   IN THIS WEBPAGE HELLENIC POETRY PRESENTS AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ABOUT AN INTERESTING POEM/POET: In 1941, in the face of horrifying devastation caused by indiscriminate aerial bombings by the Germans, the modern Greek poet Nikos Gatsos wrote from the immediate knowledge of someone who had witnessed the obliteration of a Greek village. He, too, went directly to the famous engraving and dedicated his poem,...

        THE ANTI-POEM: “LETS FUCK EACH OTHER”   FUCK THE TV BECAUSE  IT FUCKS YOUR MIND   FUCK THE FINANCIAL NEOLIBERAL IDEOLOGIES BECAUSE THAT’S WHY EUROPE IS FUCKED UP LET US MAKE HUMANITY ONE BIG WORLD ORGY AND LETS FUCK EACH OTHER LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW     SAY TO SOIBLE: FUCK YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP SOIBLE BECAUSE SOIBLE IS A...

  Η ΜΑΓΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΜΠΛΟ ΝΕΡΟΥΔΑ ΑΓΓΙΖΕΙ ΤΟΝ ΚΑΡΑΓΚΙΟΖΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΝΟΗ ΤΟΥ IN THIS WEBPAGE HELLENIC POETRY PRESENTS POEMS BY PABLO NEROUDA AND ALSO POEMS BY MENELAOS KARAGIOZIS INSPIRED BY THE BOOK:   PABLO NEROUDA, «ΣΤΑ ΧΘΟΝΙΑ ΔΩΜΑΤΑ», TRANSLATED BY ΓΙΩΡΓΟΣ ΚΕΝΤΡΩΤΗΣ, PUBLISHER ΥΨΙΛΟΝ, 2007     Διαβάστε το αριστούργημα του Pablo Neruda “Αργοπεθαίνει” Αργοπεθαίνει όποιος γίνεται σκλάβος της συνήθειας, επαναλαμβάνοντας κάθε μέρα τις...

    ΛΕΥΤΕΡΗΣ ΠΟΥΛΙΟΣ (1944-)     […] The speaker, for example, in Lefteris Poulios’s poem “Αμέρικαν μπαρ στην Αθήνα” (American bar in Athens) turns his own anxiety of influence into a much more general statement of disrespect. At the end of the poem he blithely invites his “grandfather,”  the revered Greek poet Kostis Palamas (1859-1943), on a late-night prowl to desecrate Greece’s national...

        THE HISTORY OF HOOKAH   The term Shisha goes back on the persian word “shishe”, which means “glass”. The turkish word “sise” means “bottle”, and in several arabic dialects it specially names the bowl of a hookah or the whole waterpipe. Another term for the waterpipe, that is used quite often, is “Nargile”. This word is the persian expression “nargile”...

      MR SCHAUBLE GREECE IS NOT A PIECE OF WOOD       Ο ΚΑΡΑΓΚΙΟΖΗΣ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΟΓΡΑΦΟΣ: ΕΝΩΠΙΟΣ ΕΝΩΠΙΟ ΜΕ ΤΟΥΣ ΚΥΡΙΟΥΣ ΓΙΕΓΚΕΡ ΚΑΙ ΣΟΙΜΠΛΕ WE, THE GREEKS, ARE GETTING TIRED     MR SCHAUBLE, YES YOU LITTLE DEAF-BLIND  MAN THE GREEKS ARE DYING THOUSANDS ARE CRYING, BUT NO ONE LISTENS NOBODY SEES ANYTHING            ΠΕΡΙΠΟΥ 20,000 ΟΙ ΑΣΤΕΓΟΙ...

    WITH THE MINOR ASIA CATASTROPHE THE “GREAT IDEA” OF HELLENISM WAS DESTROYED ONCE AND FOREVER. ONE OF ITS CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES WAS THAT GREECE BECAME ISOLATED NOT ONLY FROM TURKEY BUT FROM THE ARABIC CIVILIZATION AS WELL. THE GREEKS AND THE EUROPEANS OWN SO MUCH TO THE ARABIC CIVILIZATION.  IT WAS BECAUSE OF HIM THAT THE ANCIENT HELLENIC CIVILIZATION, DURING THE DARK AGES OF...

    VHS-Visions of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Kaleidoskoped           Iz & Diz – Pac [Raresh Twisted Afterhours]         Infinity Factory – Genesis P-Orridge       Margaret Dygas – note note [Triptil edit]     Genesis P-Orridge, featuring music by Psychic TV,Thee Majesty           Poiana Negri – Subacvatic [Puxumos Remix]      ...

      Η Ελληνική γλώσσα, είναι η μόνη εννοιολογική γλώσσα της γης, δηλαδή η μόνη γλώσσα στην οποίαν το σημαίνον (όνομα) εμπεριέχει απολύτως και άνευ παρερμηνείας το σημαινόμενον (νόημα). Το ότι δίδονται σήμερα δια κάθε λέξιν της Ελληνικής καθομιλουμένης διάφορες ερμηνείες, αυτό είναι απόδειξις της απώλειας της σοφίας, η οποία ενυπάρχει στη γλώσσα μας, από τους σημερινούς χρήστες αυτής, δηλαδή από εμάς τους...