{"product_id":"nyrb-poetsisbn-9781681371147","title":"NYRB Poets","description":"\u003cb\u003eA remarkable collection of poetic voices from contemporary Greece, \u003ci\u003eAusterity Measures\u003c\/i\u003e is a one-of-a-kind window into the creative energy that has arisen from the country's decade of crisis and a glimpse into what it is like to be Greek today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe 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.\"The poets in [\u003ci\u003eAusterity Measures\u003c\/i\u003e] are young, most of them under forty, but they inherit a rich Greek tradition of writers who seize a position in public discourse….Poets may need to find new ways to remain attuned to enormous changes that no one can foresee completely. \u003ci\u003eAusterity Measures\u003c\/i\u003e offers some clues as to what might be carried forward and what might be left behind.” —David Wallace, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Page-Turner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Karen Van Dyck’s \u003ci\u003eAusterity Measures\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely trove of  new   Greek voices that reverberates with urgency and authority, girded  with   hard-earned truth and a deep seeing necessary for our twenty-first    century. Here’s a language that goes for the gut and the heart, an    earthy sonority. It holds us accountable for what we witness and feel in    a time of globalism. This marvelous compendium of lived imagery  speaks   freely.\" —Yusef Komunyakaa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Required reading for poetry fans and those interested in the toll  of the economic crisis on the Greek people, and the abundant inspiration  it is providing for artists and poets in particular.\" —Eleni Sakellis, \u003ci\u003eThe National Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Greece, caught in a steely  grip between Brussels in the north and refugees to the south, has  produced a shape-shifting poetry that takes one to the heart of current  lived experience. Beside the struggle for escape, the twisting and  thrashing, there is a great melancholy too, as yet another generation  attends its own funeral.” —Noonie Minogue, \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Austerity  is a self-defeating economic policy which has taken an ugly   toll in  Greece. The silver lining is that, along with the mass   unemployment  and the rise of Nazism that it engendered, austerity also   occasioned a  cultural renaissance. This volume of multilingual poetry is   a  splendid example: living proof that the Greek crisis is of global    significance. It deserves an international audience. Now!\" —Yanis   Varoufakis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the few benefits of turbulent historical  moments is that they  tend to give rise to a new cultural efflorescence.  Nowhere is this more  obvious than in this fascinating anthology, which  gathers together a  remarkably rich, resourceful range of poetic idioms  in response to a  common sense of moral and political emergency.\"  —Terry Eagleton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Karen Van Dyck has collected an extraordinary  group of poets and   translators who are bound to put Greek poetry on  the map again. I’ve   seen it happen twice in my life: with the  Generation of the Thirties   that included Cavafy, Seferis, Elytes, and  Ritsos, and that reached   world recognition; and again, during the  Dictatorship of the Colonels,   when the group that appeared in the  Harvard anthology \u003ci\u003eEighteen Texts\u003c\/i\u003e (1972) and others living under  censorship earned international   recognition with the help of  accomplished translators. Now, during   another crisis in the country,  we find exciting new voices emerging, and   I am convinced that they are  once again saying something no one else  is  saying. Call it the  knowledge that emerges from the underside of   devastation and the  creative illumination that comes with tragedy, but   something is going  on in Greece that we aren’t seeing in the news. I   give this anthology  my strongest support.\" —Edmund Keeley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It was no more than two  or three poems in before I started to sense  the book’s atmosphere, to  see it as an uncommon chance to share Greek  experience beyond the  headlines—in a way that is fascinating, revelatory  and only possible  through poetry. Most poems here do not overtly  address the crisis. But  the collective spirit is new-minted, unmediated  and bracing (the  quality of translation high).\" —Kate Kellaway, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The  light these poets work in, and the language they speak, are  still the  light and the language of Homer and the great tragedians. \u003ci\u003eAusterity Measures\u003c\/i\u003e,   appearing as Greece faces new difficulties and suffering, offers a   newly poignant, imaginative, and resonant body of work. The wonderfully   inventive translations reveal a different Greece to English readers:  one  that does not cancel the past but builds upon it.\" —Ruth Padel\u003cb\u003eKaren Van Dyck\u003c\/b\u003e 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: \u003ci\u003eThe Rehearsal of Misunderstanding: Three Collections by Contemporary Greek Women Poets\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Century of Greek Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke\u003c\/i\u003e, a Lannan Translation selection; and \u003ci\u003eThe Greek Poets: Homer to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"NYRB Poets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303237046501,"sku":"NP9781681371147","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681371146_17c26c50-d3df-438c-9551-e78fc9b43223.jpg?v=1730753566","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/nyrb-poetsisbn-9781681371147","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}