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Pub DateMarch 2017
ISBN9781681371146
Pages496
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Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry (NYRB Poets edition)

George Karen Van Dyck
NYRB Poets

The 2008 debt crisis shook Greece to the core and went on to shake the world. More recently, Greece has become one of the main channels into Europe for refugees from poverty and war. Greece stands at the center of today’s most intractable conflicts, and this situation has led to a truly extraordinary efflorescence of innovative and powerfully moving Greek poetry. Karen Van Dyck’s wide-ranging bilingual anthology—which covers the whole contemporary Greek poetry scene, from literary poets to poets of the spoken word to poets online, and more—offers an unequaled sampling of some of the richest and most exciting poetry of our time.

About the Author

Karen Van Dyck is the Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Literature in the Classics Department at Columbia University. She writes on modern Greek and Greek diaspora literature, and gender and translation theory. Her translations include her edited and co-edited collections: The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding: Three Collections by Contemporary Greek Women PoetsA Century of Greek PoetryThe Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, a Lannan Translation selection; and The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present.