Austerity Measures
''I remember caresses, kisses, touching
each other''s hair. We had no sense that
anything else existed''
- Elena Penga, ''Heads''
''Nothing, not even the drowning of a child
Stops the perpetual motion of the world''
- Stamatis Polenakis, ''Elegy''
Since the crisis hit in 2008, Greece has played host to a cultural renaissance unlike anything seen in the country for over thirty years. Poems of startling de...
''I remember caresses, kisses, touching
each other''s hair. We had no sense that
anything else existed''
- Elena Penga, ''Heads''
''Nothing, not even the drowning of a child
Stops the perpetual motion of the world''
- Stamatis Polenakis, ''Elegy''
Since the crisis hit in 2008, Greece has played host to a cultural renaissance unlike anything seen in the country for over thirty years. Poems of startling de...
