Poetry collections & translations
The Slow Horizon that Breathes
World Poetry Books
Poetry translations
October 26, 2023
ISBN 978-1-954218-16-1 | 168 pages | 20 USD
In her debut English-language collection, contemporary Greek poet Dimitra Kotoula takes on contemporary Greek society in challenging lyrical forms.
These are poems that shimmer as they transform tragic, ironic histories and alienating religious doctrines into lyrical lines of immediate physical and visceral intensity. Kotoula’s voice embraces an autonomous selfhood based on the female bodily experience, which like seasonal landscapes, can be both breathtaking and discordant: “I want you to feel this blue / color of loneliness and uncertainty / and nothing else/ while the air and earth inflame / a sudden blooming.” Maria Nazos brings her mastery as poet and translator to render Kotoula’s irrepressible spirit on the page. We can be grateful for this collaboration for turning the rubble of contemporary life into something beautiful and lasting.
DZVINIA ORLOWSKY
Kotoula subtly and masterfully transforms...private demons into a public resonance.
A.E. STALLINGS
Writing in dialogue with the twentieth-century poets of ancient myth (George Seferis and Angelos Sikelianos among them), Dimitra Kotoula brings fresh language and a feminine touch to familiar themes.
KAREN VAN DYCK
Still Life
dancing girl press
Poetry
September 2018
31 pages | 7 USD
A Hymn that Meanders
Wising Up Press
Poetry
August 2011
ISBN 978-0-9827262-4-2 | 84 pages | 12 USD
In passionate, lyrical, funny, angry, and ecstatic poems that migrate from the heartland of the country to the Atlantic coast and beyond, this young poet searches the world within her and around her for intimate myths that will hold, stories that will heal, actions that can transform the restless quest for love into its steady practice, adolescence into adulthood.
With sonorous cadences, with relentless honesty, and with deeply human truths, as well as deeply human humans infusing her poems, Maria Nazos has written a stunning first collection. Godspeed (like a bolt, like a bullet), A Hymn That Meanders into the world!
THOMAS LUX