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    Red in Black
    Red in Black
    Red in Black
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    Red in Black

    By Manolis

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    Manolis’ vibrant and radiant poems are infused by a powerful yet subtle music that resonates with the reader who revels for the vitality of the sensuous motion of the language he uses to present images structured in a mixture of Mediterranean and Canadian formats. Poems that make the reader discover the poet’s cosmos as it expands from the microcosm to the universal. Images which declare that everything vanishes as it flows through people’s fingers, yet from all these some become eternal in their wholeness, like the child’s smile which cannot be stained by life’s conditioning, the child’s smile that cannot be blemished by the adulthood’s guilt and banal everyday littleness. Manolis’ poetry stands out among his contemporaries as this poet descends from the ancient modes and exemplary structures from which he draws and which he transposes to us in his personal poetic way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibros Libertad Publishing
    Release dateMay 16, 2019
    ISBN9780463460139
    Red in Black
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    Manolis

    Manolis (Emmanuel Aligizakis) is a Cretan-Canadian poet and author. He’s the most prolific writer-poet of the Greek diaspora. At the age of eleven he transcribed the nearly 500 year old romantic poem Erotokritos, now released in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies and made available for collectors of such rare books at 5,000 dollars Canadian: the most expensive book of its kind to this day. He was recently appointed an honorary instructor and fellow of the International Arts Academy, and awarded a Master’s for the Arts in Literature. He is recognized for his ability to convey images and thoughts in a rich and evocative way that tugs at something deep within the reader. Born in the village of Kolibari on the island of Crete in 1947, he moved with his family at a young age to Thessaloniki and then to Athens, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Sciences from the Panteion University of Athens. After graduation, he served in the armed forces for two years and emigrated to Vancouver in 1973, where he worked as an iron worker, train labourer, taxi driver, and stock broker, and studied English Literature at Simon Fraser University. He has written three novels and numerous collections of poetry, which are steadily being released as published works. His articles, poems and short stories in both Greek and English have appeared in various magazines and newspapers in Canada, United States, Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Australia, Jordan, Serbia and Greece. His poetry has been translated into Spanish, Romanian, Swedish, German, Hungarian, Ukrainian, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Serbian, Russian, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, languages and has been published in book form or in magazines in various countries. He now lives in White Rock, where he spends his time writing, gardening, traveling, and heading Libros Libertad, an unorthodox and independent publishing company which he founded in 2006 with the mission of publishing literary books. His translation book “George Seferis-Collected Poems” was shortlisted for the Greek National Literary Awards the highest literary recognition of Greece. In September 2017 he was awarded the First Poetry Prize of the Mihai Eminescu International Poetry Festival, in Craiova, Romania.

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      Book preview

      Red in Black - Manolis

      The point isn’t in the end

      but in the choice of means

      Manolis

      COPYRIGHT (©) MANOLIS 2019

      Copyright (©) Manolis 2019

      Published in 2019 by:

      Ekstasis Editions Canada Ltd. Ekstasis Editions

      Box 8474, Main Postal Outlet Box 571

      Victoria, B.C. V8W 3S1 Banff, Alberta T1L 1E3

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publisher, with the exception of brief passages in reviews. Any request for photocopying or other reproduction of any part of this book should be directed in writing to the publisher or to ACCESS: The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency, One Yonge Street, Suite 800, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5E 1E5.

      ISBN 9781771713207 (softcover)

      ISBN 9781771713214 (ebook)

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      HARVEST

      YOUR VOICE SOUNDED enchanting

      on the phone

      that warm day in August

      and I dreamed of grapevines

      and ripen grapes

      full of sugar and drunkenness

      and in the cool shade

      under the plane trees

      along the babbling brook

      I imagined

      your body that I liked to touch

      and from your nipples

      that I longed to taste

      their sweetness and drunkenness to suckle

      THE ACT OF DEATH

      THE ACT OF death unique

      singular

      errorless, personal

      schism in the rock

      irreversible incision in time

      underscoring valiantness

      when you leave the dead flesh

      and you enter the whitewashed hallway

      on your way to the Elysium

      proud, manly act

      of courage

      that dares Hades and

      invites Him to dinner

      valiant answer of life

      when you walk away from all others

      emotional apex

      when the soul cries out

      open the gates

      and as if in delirium it runs

      to the unknown yet familiar path

      only the courageous follow

      where it’ll meet

      its constant companion

      the steps of the sun to rediscover

      errorless act of death

      witness to the courage of the few-begotten

      the act of death unique

      single-handed, errorless

      idiomorphic, individual

      when you leave the husk of flesh

      to enter your diaphanous self

      COFFEE

      BOILING HOT AROMATIC coffee

      upward whirling fragrance

      tiny table

      our legs were touching under it

      entangling slowly

      when your eyes

      dived deep in mine

      imperceptible movement of your lips

      meant your anticipation

      for my prodding

      of your mind to lustful thoughts

      erotic undulation amid

      waves of a sea

      angered and passionate

      and leaving the cup of coffee

      you put your hand over mine

      sign that ready you were

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