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Yannis Livadas

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Portrait of Yannis Livadas, Paris 2019

Yannis Livadas (Greek: Γιάννης Λειβαδάς; born 26 September 1969) is a contemporary Greek poet.

Biography[edit]

Yannis Livadas is a contemporary Greek poet. Also, he is a scholar and translator concerning modernist and postmodernist English and American literature and haiku.[1] In 1993 he invented the "fusion sonnet".[2][3][4][5][6][7] According to Karen Van Dyck: '[h]e never fulfilled his Greek military service and refused to complete his formal schooling or attend university because of his individualist and anarchist beliefs. Since 2008 in both his own poetry and his literary criticism he dabbles in artistic production in which indeterminacy of meaning as well as syntactical and structural innovation, what he calls organic antimetathesis, is paramount'.[8][9] His thesis on poetry and poetics is composed of quite contradictory aspects such as: '[p]oetry is a privilege. Language hosts the poet. The poet's task is apotheosis. The defloration, that is, of every evidential proof. The reason being that poetic speech is always situated, by little or by far, ahead of its most recent interpretation'.[10][11] His statement concerning his idea on poetry and poetics, in his own words: "is based on the scaling indeterminacy of meaning, of syntactic comparisons and structural contradistinction".[12] He was deeply connected with the jazz/avant-garde tradition and during the period 1995-2008 produced poetical works based on jazz aesthetics and improvisation.[13] In 2008 he came up with the idea of "organic antimetathesis". His poems have been translated in twelve languages. He has traveled extensively to India, Europe and North Africa.[14] He lives in Paris, France.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Routines (Indiktos, Greece 2022)
  • Extremities [Poems 1990-2008] (Ekati, Greece 2022)
  • Il grasso della mosca / Poesie 1995-2010 (Campanotto Editore, Italia 2021)
  • Jazz Şiirleri (Sub Press, Türkiye 2021)
  • Collected Haiku (Red Moon Press, USA 2020)
  • Kemiklerimden Yapılma Mezar Çorbası [Seçilmiş kısa şiirler 1996-2012] (Sub Press, Türkiye 2020)
  • La Chope Daguerre / Autoreportage (Edizioni Kolibris, Italia 2020)
  • My Bones In The Soup Of My Grave: Selected Shorter Poems 1996-2012 (Ragged Lion Press, United Kingdom 2019)
  • A Sum of Haiku: 1991-1997 (Ragged Lion Press, United Kingdom 2019)
  • Αutoreportages (Moloko Print, Germany 2018)
  • Haiku 1991-2008 (Ekati, Greece 2018)
  • Inferred Emptiness (Koukoutsi, Greece 2017)
  • Magnat De La Mort: Poems Courts 1997-2011 (Editions L'Harmattan, Paris, France 2017)
  • Austerity Measures: Poetry Anthology [with 4 poems](Agra, Greece 2017)
  • An interview and Five Poems (Co-edition of Moloko Print [Germany] and Sea Urchin Editions [Holland] 2017).
  • Austerity Measures / The New Greek Poetry [with 6 poems] (New York Review Books, USA 2017)
  • Austerity Measures / The New Greek Poetry [with 6 poems] (Penguin Books, United Kingdom 2016)
  • Modart (Alloglotta, Greece 2015)
  • Cross-Section: An Anthology of Contemporary Greek Poetry (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, USA 2015)
  • Strictly Two (Sea Urchin Editions, Netherlands 2015)
  • The Fat of the Fly (Kedros, Greece 2015)
  • Sound Bones (Iolkos, Greece 2014)
  • At the La Manne Stand at 90 by Claude Bernard (Private Edition, Paris 2013)
  • La Chope Daguerre + Husk Poems (Kedros, 2013)
  • Bezumlje (Peti Talas, Serbia 2012)
  • Ravaged By The Hand Of Beauty (Cold Turkey Press, France 2012)
  • Kelifus (Cold Turkey Press, France 2011)
  • Ati / Poems 2001-2009 (Kedros, Greece 2011)
  • The Margins Of A Central Man (Graffiti Kolkata, India 2010)
  • The Star Electric Space / An International Anthology Of Indie Writers [with 4 Poems] (Graffiti Kolkata, India 2010)
  • Apteral Nike/Business-Sphinx (Heridanos, Greece 2008)
  • John Coltrane & 15 Poems for Jazz (C.C. Marimbo, Berkeley-California, USA 2008)
  • John Coltrane & 13 Poems fot Jazz (Apopeira, Greece 2007)
  • The hanging verses of Babylon (Melani, Greece 2007)
  • Annex of temperate emotion (Indiktos, Greece 2003)
  • Invoice of Retail Poetry (Akron, Greece 2002)
  • Expressionist Feedback (Akron, Greece 2000)

Notable translations of his work[edit]

  • My Bones In The Soup Of My Grave: Selected Shorter Poems 1996-2012 (Ragged Lion Press, United Kingdom 2019) ISBN 978-1937073855 Search this book on .
  • A Sum of Haiku: 1991-1997 (Ragged Lion Press, United Kingdom 2019) ISBN 978-1937073862 Search this book on .
  • Αutoreportages (Moloko Print, Germany 2018)
  • Magnat De La Mort [Poèmes courts 1997-2011] (Éditions L'Harmattan, Paris, France, 2017) ISBN 978-2-343-13449-9 Search this book on .
  • Yannis Livadas Interviewed by Ben Schot and Five Poems (Co-edition of Moloko Plus [Germany] and Sea Urchin Editions [Netherlands] 2017) ISBN 978-3-943603-33-0 Search this book on .
  • Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry [is included with six poems], edited by Karen van Dyck (New York Review Books, USA 2017) ISBN 9781681371146 Search this book on .
  • Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry [is included with six poems], edited by Karen van Dyck (Penguin Books, United Kingdom 2016) ISBN 0241250625 Search this book on .[15][16][17]
  • Strictly Two (Sea Urchin Editions, Netherlands 2015) [Collector's item, limited edition]
  • Cross-Section: An Anthology of Contemporary Greek Poetry (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, USA 2015) ISBN 978-1514201886 Search this book on .
  • Bezumlje: Rasute Pesme 2001-2009, translated by Momčilo Radić (Serbia 2012) ISBN 978-86-88891-01-1 Search this book on .
  • Kelifus, translated by Gerard Bellaart & Agnes Racine (Cold Turkey Press, France 2011) [Collector's item, limited edition]
  • John Coltrane & 15 Poems for Jazz, translated by Jack Hirschman & Dimitri Charalambous (C.C. Marimbo Books, USA 2008) ISBN 1-930903-46-4 Search this book on .
  • The Margins Of A Central Man (Graffiti Kolkata, India 2010)
  • The Star Electric Space/An International Anthology Of Indie Writers [is included with four poems] (Graffiti Kolkata, India 2010)

An indicative list of his translations[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Παρίδης, Χρίστος (19 November 2011). "Ο Γιάννης Λειβαδάς και η τέχνη της γραφής του" [Yannis Livadas and the Art of his Writing]. Eleftherotypia (in Greek). Retrieved August 7, 2016.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  2. Osborne, Jordan (13 October 2016). "Interview: Greek Poet Yannis Livadas". Vendor. Retrieved October 15, 2016.
  3. "Greek Books in Translation". National Book Centre of Greece. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  4. Sansby, Connor (2018). "What is a Sonnet?". Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  5. Sedaghat, Melika. "A Short History of the Sonnet". Academia.edu. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  6. Khatri, Chhote Lal. "Stephen Gill's The Singer of Life: Experimental Sonnets" (PDF). Writerslifeline. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  7. "Yannis Livadas". Recours au Poème. Retrieved May 1, 2020.
  8. Dyck, Karen Van (2016) Austerity Matters: The New Greek Poetry, p. 361. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0241250625 Search this book on .
  9. "Yannis Livadas". Literature. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  10. Livadas, Yannis (2015) Anaptygma: Essays and Notes on Poetry, p. 13. Athens: Koukoutsi. ISBN 978-618-5202-04-0 Search this book on .
  11. Καρτάλη, Άννα (19 October 2014). "Γιάννης Λειβαδάς – Η επανιεράρχηση της ποίησης και η κριτική της ποιητικής τέχνης" [Yannis Livadas – The re-prioritization of poetry and the critique of poetic art]. Artic (in Greek). Retrieved January 25, 2020.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  12. Χαχής, Παναγιώτης (9 January 2018). "Γιάννης Λειβαδάς: Το κυλιόμενο ντεμπούτο της ποίησης" [The repeating debut of poetry]. Unfollow (in Greek). Retrieved May 15, 2018.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  13. Limnios, Michael (10 December 2011). "An interview with the poet Yannis Livadas: Jazz offered me a faith in permanent innovation in poetry". Blues.gr. Retrieved December 23, 2016.
  14. Τρούσας, Φώντας (22 May 2015). "Ο ποιητής, μεταφραστής και μελετητής της beat generation Γιάννης Λειβαδάς" [Yannis Livadas: The Poet, Translator and scholar of the Beat Generation]. LIFO (magazine) (in Greek). Retrieved October 4, 2016.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  15. Dyck, Karen Van (25 March 2016). "The new Greek poetry". The Guardian. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  16. Kelaway, Kate (3 April 2016). "Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry – review". The Guardian. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  17. Livadas, Yannis (30 April 2019). "Poetry Today, Austerity Measures and the Reign of Verisimilitude". Dispatches from the Poetry Wars. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  18. Βαϊλάκης, Γιώργος (12 May 2012). ""Φωτογραφία" της ζωής με τη μορφή διηγήματος" ["Photograph" of Life Formed as Novel]. Imerisia (in Greek). Retrieved October 4, 2016.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  19. Κουζέλη, Λαμπρινή (18 March 2012). "Αλήτες που φαντάζονταν ότι ήταν συγγραφείς" [Vagabonds Who Used to Imagine Themselves as Writers]. To Vima (in Greek). Retrieved October 4, 2016.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  20. Φύσσας, Δημήτρης (17 November 2011). "Short list του χειμώνα" [Short List of the Winter]. Athens Voice (in Greek). Retrieved October 4, 2016.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  21. Μπρουντζάκης, Ξενοφών (31 March 2011). "Ιερές αναγνώσεις" [Sacred Readings]. To Pontiki (in Greek). Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  22. Βαϊλάκης, Γιώργος (5 March 2011). "Τα οράματα μιας απίθανης γενιάς" [The Visions of an Amazing Generation]. Imerisia (in Greek). Retrieved October 4, 2016.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  23. Παπασπύρου, Σταυρούλα &, Σπίνου, Παρή (30 January 2011). "Μπίτνικ, Τζαζ και Θρησκεία" [Beatnik, Jazz and Religion]. Eleftherotypia (in Greek). Retrieved October 8, 2016.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  24. Ρούβαλης, Βασίλης (15 March 2011). "Ποίηση και ποίηση" [Poetry and Poetry]. I Avgi (in Greek). Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  25. Νταραδήμου, Αρετή (4 January 2009). "Ταξίδι εμπειριών στη χώρα της νοσταλγίας" [Journey of Experiences to the Country of Nostalgia]. Eleftheros Typos (in Greek). Retrieved October 2008, 2016.
  26. Παπαγιαννίδου, Μαίρη (14 September 2008). "Δεν είμαι μπιτ, είμαι καθολικός" [I Am not Beat, I Am Catholic]. To Vima (in Greek). Retrieved October 8, 2016.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  27. Σταυρόπουλος, Σταύρος (31 August 2008). "Ύμνος στην τζαζ, στο περιθώριο και στην χαμένη αθωότητα" [Anthem to Jazz, to the Margins and to Lost Innocence]. I Kathimerini (in Greek). Retrieved October 8, 2016.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  28. Χαρτουλάρη, Μικέλα (9 August 2008). "Κέρουακ ο αγνός" [Kerouac the Pure]. Ta Nea (in Greek). Retrieved October 8, 2016.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
  29. Χατζηβασιλείου, Βαγγέλης (30 November 2008). "Αποκαλύπτοντας την ανθρώπινη ανοησία" [Revealing Huaman Stupodity]. Eleftherotypia (in Greek). Retrieved October 8, 2016.

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