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Though his first collection was published as recently as 2002, poet and essayist Dimitris Kosmopoulos began publishing poems in journals in the early 1980s. His long apprenticeship perhaps explains the maturity of his poetic voice in his first work. Of the younger generation of Greek poets, Kosmopoulos is without doubt one of its master craftsmen. He perceives poetry as exhibiting a unity beyond its separation into traditional, modern and postmodern modes and as requiring an internal rhythmic organization that goes beyond such strict classifications. In this new collection of 24 poems, we find prose poems, together with poems in free verse and rhyme with their central theme the Russian film director, Andrei Tarkovsky. “A bright-hued bird in the Tuscan hills / with Russian chirp and forest shades / records my absence and is the hidden ace / I kept for you, death, now that you are dead.”
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