Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 1639526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katerina |
| FAMILY NAME | Anghelaki-Rooke |
| SIGNATURE | ANGHELAKI-ROOKE K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
All Alone
All Alone Editorial note: First published in 1956, reprinted in Poiimata, 1963–1977 (Kastaniotis, 1997). Translated by Karen Van Dyck (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution If you mix rainwater with tearslaughter with suntornado and the wind with rising indignation. If you cry for the children, barefootopen-handed, whose approaching facesglow with late afternoonyou will find yourself all alone. If you turn to the people around youyou wi…
The Suitors
poetry / katerina anghelaki-rooke The Suitors From the window thegarden seems tobelong elsewhere and thehouse to travel on a leaf. Through the window grille the suitors ofmy silence are cut into slices; they meet and organize my life as ifit were a party and the smell of cooking fromall those years ofwaiting reaches me upstairs. The suitors flyaround me dazzled by the light ofmy blinding loneliness; when I look at them fromabove it is because I a…
The Other Penelope
The Other Penelope Penelope emerges fromtheolive trees her hairmore or less tidy her dress from theneighborhood market navy blue with white flowers. She tellsus it wasn't obsession with the idea of "Odysseus" thatpressed her to let the suitors wait foryears in the forecourts ofher body's secrethabits. There in the island's palace with the fakehorizons of a saccharine love and only thebird in the window comprehending the infinite she had painted w…
Penelope Says
poetry / katerina anghelaki-rooke Penelope Says Iwasn't weaving, Iwasn't knitting Iwas writing something erasing and being erased under the weight of theword because perfect expression isblocked when the inside ispressured by pain. And while absence is the themeofmy life absence from life tearsand thenatural suffering of thedeprived body appear on the page. I erase, I tearup, I stifle the living cries "Where are you, come, I'm waiting for you thi…
Sex Roles in Modern Greek Poetry
Sex Roles in Modern Greek Poetry Katerina Anghehki-Rooke There is a paradox in poetry: the poem is both the instrument and the result of self-knowledge. Without having plunged into yourself you cannot come up with a poem, but at the same time the poem is the way which leads the poet nearer to the center of the self. For women poets this exploration has still another objective: To find and define their feminine identity in terms of their own consc…
Sex Roles in Modern Greek Poetry
Sex Roles in Modern Greek Poetry Katerina Anghehki-Rooke There is a paradox in poetry: the poem is both the instrument and the result of self-knowledge. Without having plunged into yourself you cannot come up with a poem, but at the same time the poem is the way which leads the poet nearer to the center of the self. For women poets this exploration has still another objective: To find and define their feminine identity in terms of their own consc…
Sex Roles in Modern Greek Poetry
Sex Roles in Modern Greek Poetry Katerina Anghehki-Rooke There is a paradox in poetry: the poem is both the instrument and the result of self-knowledge. Without having plunged into yourself you cannot come up with a poem, but at the same time the poem is the way which leads the poet nearer to the center of the self. For women poets this exploration has still another objective: To find and define their feminine identity in terms of their own consc…
The Suitors
poetry / katerina anghelaki-rooke The Suitors From the window thegarden seems tobelong elsewhere and thehouse to travel on a leaf. Through the window grille the suitors ofmy silence are cut into slices; they meet and organize my life as ifit were a party and the smell of cooking fromall those years ofwaiting reaches me upstairs. The suitors flyaround me dazzled by the light ofmy blinding loneliness; when I look at them fromabove it is because I a…
The Other Penelope
The Other Penelope Penelope emerges fromtheolive trees her hairmore or less tidy her dress from theneighborhood market navy blue with white flowers. She tellsus it wasn't obsession with the idea of "Odysseus" thatpressed her to let the suitors wait foryears in the forecourts ofher body's secrethabits. There in the island's palace with the fakehorizons of a saccharine love and only thebird in the window comprehending the infinite she had painted w…
Penelope Says
poetry / katerina anghelaki-rooke Penelope Says Iwasn't weaving, Iwasn't knitting Iwas writing something erasing and being erased under the weight of theword because perfect expression isblocked when the inside ispressured by pain. And while absence is the themeofmy life absence from life tearsand thenatural suffering of thedeprived body appear on the page. I erase, I tearup, I stifle the living cries "Where are you, come, I'm waiting for you thi…
All Alone
All Alone Editorial note: First published in 1956, reprinted in Poiimata, 1963–1977 (Kastaniotis, 1997). Translated by Karen Van Dyck (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution If you mix rainwater with tearslaughter with suntornado and the wind with rising indignation. If you cry for the children, barefootopen-handed, whose approaching facesglow with late afternoonyou will find yourself all alone. If you turn to the people around youyou wi…
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