1940
Γιώργος Σαραντάρης, 1940
Poems written in the last year of a short life: sea, light and the dead spoken of without dread.
Γιώργος Σαραντάρης
1908–1941
These collected works present the intense, brief vision of a young poet grappling with light, the sea, and the passage of time. You might start with «Poems written in the last year of a short life» to experience his direct gaze upon existence before war.
Feels like wonder, melancholy and nature.
Start with 1940.
Sarantaris died at thirty-two in 1941, the year after these poems; much of his work was published only after his death.
He claims the dead are somehow born again, and you want to know how.
Πάλι σηκώνει τὴ σημαίαἘμεῖς μπαίνουμε χωρὶς φόβοΤὰ μάτια τὰ πουλιὰ μαζί μας μπαίνουνἈστράφτει ἡ πολιτεία ἀστράφτει ὁ νοῦς μαςἩ φαντασία τοὺς κήπους πλημμυράειΕἶναι παιδιὰ ποὺ στέκονται στὶς βρύσεςΚορυδαλλοὶ στοὺς ὄρθρους ἀκουμπᾶνεΣτὶς λεμονιὲς ἄγγελοι χορτάτοιΕἶναι ἀηδόνια ποὺ παντοῦ ξυπνᾶνεΦλογέρες παίζουν ἔντομα βουίζουνΕἶναι τραγούδια ἡ στάχτη τῶν νεκρῶνΚαὶ οἱ νεκροὶ κάπου ἀναγεννιοῦνται πάλιὉλοῦθε μᾶς μαζεύει ὁ ΘεὸςἜχουμε χέρια καθαρὰ καὶ πᾶμε. Books by Γιώργος Σαραντάρης
1935
Γιώργος Σαραντάρης, 1935
A young Greek poet and diarist writes to a woman he loves and to his own disappearing self, in verse and feverish prose, months before his early death.
1939
Γιώργος Σαραντάρης, 1939
A young Greek poet writes the sea, the sun and the body as if all three were about to dissolve. Short, strange, luminous poems from the eve of war.
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