Angelos Kouros\u2019 \u201cI swear to you on the mountain, I have no holier oath\u201d is a poetic narration of an exodus from the city to the mountains \u2013 a narration of a much-needed catharsis. Formed as a unified poem, it has all the elements that make poetry great: the specific, the tangible, the \u201cdeep\u201d (in the sense of conceiving metaphysical meaning) and at the same time the \u201csimple\u201d with the Giorgos Seferis\u2019 way \u201cto speak simply, to be granted that grace\u201d. The collection was originally published in the volume \u201c\u03c3\u03bf\u03c5 \u03bf\u03c1\u03ba\u03af\u03b6\u03bf\u03bc\u03b1\u03b9 \u03c3\u03c4\u03bf \u03b2\u03bf\u03c5\u03bd\u03cc, \u03b9\u03b5\u03c1\u03cc\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf \u03cc\u03c1\u03ba\u03bf \u03b4\u03b5\u03bd \u03ad\u03c7\u03c9\u201d in 2020 by \u201cKapa Publications\u201d in Greece to critical acclaim. Featuring expert translation by Angelos Sakkis this volume also includes an addendum with notes on all the relevant mountains and trees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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