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Niobe
.A metal door mural depicting a Greek goddess, presumed to be a work by Banksy: photo by Adel Hana/AP via The Guardian, 1 April 2015Niobe was the daughter of Tantalus, and the wife of Amphion....Your...
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Studying the ashes under the stars (George Seferis: Fires of St. John)
.A muddied girl, donning a cape made of dried banana leaves, makes the rounds of the streets to collect candles prior to attending a mass to celebrate the Feast Day of St John the Baptist in the...
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That secret depth: Thomas Traherne: A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of...
. Untitled [Portland, Oregon]: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, March 2013A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of GodFor all the mysteries, engines, instruments, wherewith the world...
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The Shield of Archilochus
....................................................................Workers at a coking plant that has been under heavy rocket fire because it is situated close to the 'contact line' between government...
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Meanwhile in Athens (Vassilis Zambaras: Web)
.Meanwhile in Athens: A timeless allegory. That changes by the hour: image via Nein. @NeinQuarterly, 28 June 2015The spider sees bliss Approaching in the eye Of an immobile fly. Vassilis Zambaras: Web...
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Rocking the bones of the old (Michael Longley: Homer's Laertes)
.Pensioners waiting outside a closed National Bank branch and hoping to get their pensions, argue with a bank employee through a closed door in Iraklio on the island of Crete: photo by Stefanos...
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Yannis Ritsos: The Unhinged Shutter
.Pensioners stand behind shutters of the Alpha Bank headquarters in central Athens on June 29: photo by Louisa Gouliamaki / AFP via Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2015I told the carpenters, told the...
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Paratactic "Correspondences": Friedrich Hölderlin: Griechenland (Greece):...
.Gotthardpostat Wassen: aquatintby Weberafterdrawing byStraub, 1845; image by Adrian Michel, July 2007, from Artur Wyss-Niederer: Sankt Gotthard...........................Ways of the...
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Net
.Milky Way's Galactic Plane. Edited European Southern Observatory mosaic image (created by the ESO) of the Milky Way's galactic plane: image by Stuart Rankin, 29 December 2014 The time of nature has...
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Crushed (George Seferis: "The blood swells now..." from Summer Solstice)
...........................................Pensioners line up outside a National Bank branch in Athens. Bank branches around Greece are open today to allow pensioners to receive a small part of their...
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Why are you punishing me? What is my crime? (Yannis Ritsos: from Diaries of...
.846: photo by Petros Kotzabasis, 16 June 2015Why are you punishing me? What is my crime?Yannis Ritsos: November 6Evening. The bell for the evening meal.Shouts from the boys playing soccer.Was it...
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Ixnay!
."No" supporters celebrate with a Greek flag outside Parliament in Athens after Greek voters reject EU bailout in Sunday's referendum: photo by Petros Giannakouros/AP via Vice News, 5 July 2015AthensO...
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In the other life: George Seferis: Mathios Paskalis Among the Roses
. Untitled (Korçë, Albania): photo by Geoff Wong, 12 July 2009 I've been smoking steadily all morningif I stop the roses will embrace methey'll choke me with thorns and fallen petalsthey grow...
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A Monster from the North: The Day the Germans Came to Kondomari (George...
.A man walks past graffiti painted on a closed shop in the Monastiraki area in central Athens: photo by Christian Hartmann/Reuters via FT Photo Diary, 7 July 2015#Greece Travel Bookings From #Germany...
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At Sea (Yannis Ritsos: Sources: "...between two strokes with the oars")
.An elderly man stands beside a lifebuoy hanging on a wall in central Athens on July 7, 2015. Photo @ArisMessinis: image via AFP Photo Department @AFP Photo, 7 July 2015There were still -- beyond...
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Austerity: A New Song on the Taxes (from Irish Street Ballads)
.Blossom Gate, Kilmallock, County Limerick: photographer unknown, July 1909 (National Library of Ireland)A New Song on the Taxes All you young men and maidens come and listen to my song,It is something...
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John Ford's Point
.Merrick Butte in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Utah: photo by Mladen Antonov / AFP via FT Photo Diary, 27 May 2015"Harry Carey tutored me in the early years, sort of brought me along, and the...
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Europa
.A Satyr Mourning Over a Nymph (detail): Piero di Cosimo(1462-1522), c. 1495, oil on poplar, 65.4 × 184.2 cm (National Gallery, London) (To Iphigeneia) Your hair is scattered light: The Greeks will...
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ThisIsACoup (Vassilis Zambaras: Hope Dies Last / An Air of Acquiescence)
.A pensioner waits to receive part of his pension at a National Bank branch in Athens, Greece on Monday: photo by Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters, 13 July 2015Daily life in central Athens: image via AFP...
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Telos -- The End? (Yannis Ritsos: It’s taking us a long time to get old)
. EXCLUSIVE: What a secret IMF report reveals about #Greece [photo: A man walks by a mural in Athens: Yannis Behrakis]: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 14 July 2015Greece put its faith in...
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