Φύλλα
Αχιλλέας Παράσχος, 1876
A Greek poet of the 1870s on exile, prison and inconsolable grief — poems on this list under a title that promises only leaves, written in a rhyming demotic that still lands hard.
Αχιλλέας Παράσχος
1838–1895
Paraschos writes in a rhyming demotic that carries grief and anger without straining, and the three books here share that plain, direct music: loss, exile and disappointment spoken rather than dressed up. Start with «Φύλλα», where poems about prison and inconsolable grief sit under a title that promises only leaves, or with «Παραμονή Χριστουγέννων», a Christmas Eve vision of Christ and Peter walking the waking world in search of one door still open, tender and sly by turns. «Εν περιπάτω» belongs with them too, a walk through London and Paris that finds only decline, rage and wit in the same breath.
Feels like power, faith and nostalgia.
Start with Φύλλα.
A satirist and lyric poet who attacked the politicians of his day so fiercely that his newspaper, Asmodaios, was repeatedly seized. He died on the island of Corfu in 1895.
What the traitor's kiss does to a man who is already in his grave.
Ὅμως τὸ ἄπιστο φιλὶ νεκρὸ ἀνασηκόνεικαὶ ζωντανεύει τὸ κορμὶ ποὺ χῶμα τὸ πλακόνει.Ἀκούει μέσ’ στὸν ὕπνο του τὸν πρῶτο βυθισμένοςτῆς νύφης του τὸ φίλημα ὁ νειός ὁ πεθαμμένος·τὸν ὄρκο του θυμήθηκε κι’ ὁ τάφος του ἀνοίγει·σὲ μαῦρο ἀπάνω βρέθηκε, λάκκους σταυροὺς πηδάει,τὸν βλέπουν τ’ ἄστρα τρέμουνε, ἡ γῆ ζητεῖ νὰ φύγῃκαὶ χαλινάρι δὲν κρατεῖ· ὁ Μαῦρος ὁδηγάει·φεὺγει, πετᾷ· τὰ πέταλλα σπίθαις, φωτιαὶς σκορπᾶνεκαὶ φέγγουνε τὸ δρόμο τους· ἀλλοίμονο, ποῦ πᾶνε! Books by Αχιλλέας Παράσχος
Παραμονή Χριστουγέννων
Αχιλλέας Παράσχος, 1878
On Christmas Eve, Christ and Peter walk the waking world, looking for the one door that will still open. A late-Romantic Greek Christmas vision, tender and sly.
Εν περιπάτω
Αχιλλέας Παράσχος, 1875
A nineteenth-century Greek poet walks through London and Paris and sees only decline. Rage, wit and nostalgia in the same breath.
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