{"product_id":"the-brazen-plagiarist-selected-poems-the-margellos-world-republic-of-letters","title":"The Brazen Plagiarist: Selected Poems (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)","description":"\u003cp\u003eKiki Dimoulas poetrythe most praised and prized in contemporary Greek literatureis a paradox  both mysteriously intricate and widely popular. Her magic lens defamiliarizes all that is familiar  compressing distances between far-flung realms  conflating concrete and abstract  literal and metaphorical  physical and metaphysical. Exacting and oracular at once  Dimoula superimposes absurdity on rationality  caustic irony on dark melancholy. This first English translation of a wide selection of poems from across Dimoulas oeuvre brings together some of her most beguiling  arresting  and moving work. The demands on her translators are considerable. Dimoula plays with the Greek language  melds its levels of diction  challenges its grammar and syntax  and bends its words  by twisting their very shape and meaning. Cecile Inglessis Margellos and Rika Lesser  Dimoulas award-winning translators  have re-created her styles uncanny effect of refraction: when plunged into the water of her poetry  all these bent words suddenly and astonishingly appear perfectly straight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984196005941,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300141394","price":35.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300141399.jpg?v=1770826021","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-brazen-plagiarist-selected-poems-the-margellos-world-republic-of-letters","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}