Oxopetra Elegies
First Published in 1997. ''Geographically speaking ''Oxopetra'' is a promontory on the island of Astypalaea. It is the ''other rock''. For me, it is the farthest point of the land in the sea, the farthest point of our era in another era, and the farthest point of my life in death... Odysseus Elytis.'' Odysseus Elytis was born in Crete in 1911 and published the first of his poems in 1935. He was in...
First Published in 1997. ''Geographically speaking ''Oxopetra'' is a promontory on the island of Astypalaea. It is the ''other rock''. For me, it is the farthest point of the land in the sea, the farthest point of our era in another era, and the farthest point of my life in death... Odysseus Elytis.'' Odysseus Elytis was born in Crete in 1911 and published the first of his poems in 1935. He was in...
