Surname: GEORGOUSSIS
First Name: GEORGE
Categories : Poetry / Translation
Date of Birth: 1940
Place of Birth: Athens
Origin: Region of Parnassus

Education: Medical School of Athens University. Military Service Greek Navy. Specialised in Cardiology in Paris and London.

Career: Lives and works in Athens.

Foreign Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

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Works:
Poetry:

Nortilique - Ikaros Publ., Athens 1966
Returns - Ikaros Publ., Athens 1984
Stony walls - Keimena Publ., Athens 1985
Diaries of abscence - Ikaros Publ., Athens 1986
Double sentry - Diaton Publ., Athens 1987
Note-books of the South - Diaton Publ., Athens 1988
Palinody - Diaton Publ., Athens 1989, 1990
Dots - Diatton Publ., Athens 1999, ISBN 960.1031.41.4
The Chronicles of the Gardens - Ikaros Publ., Athens 2001, ISBN 960.1121.65.9
Clay Nature - Gabrilidis Publ., Athens, 2002, ISBN 960.336.112.1


Translations:

Federico Garcia Lorca : Lament for Ignacio Sduches Mejias, ed. Diatton, 2002, ISBN 960.1031.58.Χ

Cultirates essay, translations from varioius languages and, mainly, poetry.

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Clay Nature

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READ AN EXCERPT: Clay Nature
SEVERED HEADS







Even now, after so many years,
I’m listening from the upper tiers
to the deep river
flowing headlong under the stage,
under the constellation of the bard’s Lyre
in the far- off palaces of the Parthians
or the square of the neighbouring townlet
- when the unexpected story
is coming to an end
and the messenger recites his monologue
behind the cypresses
filling the air
with the tempo of hushed drums.
And what can death contain
that life cannot?

The sky is impassive as always.
At times a wind blows
bringing down from the mountains
twigs or cypress cones
a lion’s head or a bull’s head
that a crazy mother carried
fixed to a pole
in Thebes
and Trikala
-and once throughout Hellas.