Perishable

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Poems exploring the relationship between joy and elegy.In Perishable, Stelios Mormoris asks incisive questions about the nature of human connection: Where does memory live—in the body, in the mind, or elsewhere? What happens when the objects that surround us—a wedding ring, an empty purse, a harp—reveal necessary truths about ourselves and those we love? As the book unfolds, lush sensory details and unmatched lyricism are brought to bear on these lingering concerns in a style as neoclassical as it is contemporary. In poems that radiate with intelligence, Mormoris combines understated elegance with finely tuned music and evocative imagery.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-03-24
Mått152 x 229 x 8 mm
Vikt113 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor72
FörlagTupelo Press, Incorporated
ISBN9781961209190

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i. Lamentations1 - Belle-Île*2 - Old Girl4 - The Stream*5 - Mushrooms*7 - Crossing*9 - Indigo*10 - Eau de Parfum*12 - The Mourner*14 - Interruptus*15 - Vespers[10 poems, 17 pages]ii. Flora Mortis18 - In The Roses20 - Baltimore Spring*22 - Yià Yià24 - Watermelon*26 - Ballerina28 - Homage to Weeds*29 - Spangled30 - La Tour Eiffel32 - Sigh:33 - Arrangements[10 poems, 17 pages]iii. Perishable35 - Party At The Mercer37 - It Is My Revolution40 - Jingle-Jangle41 - Ken & Barbie43 - Ode To Herringbone44 - The Quarrel46 - Perishable*

"The poems in Perishable by Stelios Mormoris pulsate with musical intensity, as they alternate between ode and lament, sensual pleasure and the ever-presence of death. Whether paying homage to weeds, celebrating watermelon or ballerinas, Mormoris paints a world in which ‘traffic sizzles,’ loneliness ‘burns,’ where mortal folly and resilience reveal the ‘cold lesson of distance’ and ‘terrible birds of our derision.’ Searing and poignant, Perishable moves through ‘thickets of diary,’ past ‘activists spitting thorns’ and ‘sweet alarm of children playing,’ toward a most human pressing question: ‘Is it possible to be / reborn with grace?’ With this collection, Stelios Mormoris makes space for us to contemplate such yearning and evanescence."