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Three Sea Stones
by Vasiliki Katsarou
Lynne Sachs, filmmaker, and author of Year by Year Poems, on Lynne Shapiro’s GALA:
From a woman's gaze, and from a canvas to a still life, Lynne Shapiro offers us a way to see art in all of its layers, its playfulness, its integrity, its lack of integrity. She is so candid! Like Maggie Nelson, she delights in the asides and citations, allowing us context that expands our thinking. In the best of ways, she is a poet, a sociologist, and a Page 6 observer of the 1980s art world shenanigans. What a pleasure to dive into Gala.
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Lynne Shapiro’s Gala is a collection of poems that unfolds like a film. Spliced with flashbacks and asides, the poems move through myriad cultural and poetic registers—from Surrealist tropes to Hollywood movies to Greek mythology—showcasing a unique voice that echoes the collage aesthetic of the artworks themselves. Gala is an artist's coming-of-age story, and insists that a woman’s voice, in all its wonder and indignation, shall not be erased.
“Lapidary poems that have the lingering effect of a ghazal.”
Vasiliki Katsarou’s new poetry collection The Second Home is available now
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Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
—Mina Loy
Prodigal Daughters,
a poetry film
See my poetry film made with A. D. King.
Out of Words & Paint on Paper: An Exchange of Art
by Vasiliki Katsarou
Is a picture worth a thousand words? Can a poem paint a picture? How the wordless can convey emotion, beyond all expectation.
Some thoughts on poetry translation
by Vasiliki Katsarou
I find myself in an odd position as a poet whose mother tongue was briefly Greek. Here are some of my thoughts on the experience of translating from Greek, and on having my work translated into Greek by poet Anastasia Paraskevoulakou.
