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Athena Papadaki Greece PWF 2011
"I respect silence-it comes from the cosmos."
Athena Papadaki was born in 1945 in Athens. She studied politics and works as a journalist. Not quite the Madonna of the Pressure Cooker, Papadaki writes in the tradition of Elytis and Ritsos—using a particularly Greek form of surrealism, centered on the concrete realities of daily life.
"I believe in all that burns in vain.
Transient and speechless
I see mammals blazing
in the festivity of milk.
I'm precious,
I guarantee nothing but ash."
Papadaki's work includes: Archangel of Concrete, Earth Once Again, So Pale Almost White, Shop-window Lioness, Sleepless Woman of the Skies, and In the Balcony's Realm.
"I must sing of those
who taught me deprivation."
Athena Papadaki lives in Athens.
Athena Papadaki: Poems
16.05.2011 Featuring
Selection of poems for a reading at the 21. Prague Writers' Festival
Athena Papadaki: Omnipresent Poetry
23.02.2011 Featuring
Athena Papadaki in conversation with Eleni Ioannou