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Winner of the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus, these experimental linked poem-threads move across time, linking a young Cypriot to ancestors, contemporaries, and descendants through striking, disparate polyphony.

In this bilingual collection of linked poems, Kefala creates a tapestry of motifs that transcend time and identity across early 20th Century Cyprus, 16th Century Scotland, a sailor on Christopher Columbus’ ship La Pinta, and more. As the poem threads draw together, it is as if the protagonist, in his travels through the twentieth century, encounters Odysseus, Cervantes, Columbus, Rembrandt, and others, all moving in multidimensional synchronicity. In this way, the readers take part in the production of meaning by pulling the threads together, stitching together their own reading of the story. Through the reading of these threads, time remains fluid, creating a masterful declaration about the function of poetry: perhaps history is nothing more than the presence of innumerable human voices, some more and some less powerful, coexisting in an eternal present.

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Book category Books in German Belletristik Lyrik, Dramatik

• Full title: Time Stitches
• Subtitle: Poems
• Author: Eleni Kefala
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9781646051847
• ISBN: 164605184X
• ID: 36645843
• Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Weight: 318 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. December 2022

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