GINGER F. ZAIMIS
BOOKS
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Antigone the Heroic Crown
ISBN: 978-618-86679-1-4
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New and Selected American poetry in performance, mythology and philosophy with Modern Greek perspectives via our daughter of Humanity, Antigone. Ginger begins where Sophocles ends and our heroine serves as metaphor for both individual and Humanity. The work is composed in three acts as inspired by Ancient Greek Poetry which as a whole serve as a contemporary modernism and vehicle for comparative literature while navigating the straits of mythos and logos, as well as, axioms of opposites (self and other, trauma to catharsis & victim to victor).
Its shape is derived from the classical Renaissance Italian form bearing its name, Heroic Crown of sonnets, designed by the Sienna Academy in 1460, which ironically or not, never produced any Heroic Crown of sonnets even though they were the architects of.
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Genre: Poetry/Mythology/Philosophy
Publisher: ΠΟΛΥΕΔΡΟ γράμματα - τÎχνες
Bi-lingual: English with Modern Greek
Year: December 2023
Therapy with Antigone and the Trilogy Verses
ISBN: 978-1-944682-40-8
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Therapy with Antigone and the Trilogy Verses is the author's third collection of poetry and is shaped with ancient myth, logos and philosophy.
The book is comprised of three parts: The progressed mythology of Sophocles' Antigone written in sonnet cycles and reshaped into a debut play; in situ a NEW translation (Ancient Greek to English verse) of the Stoic philosopher, Cleanthes' poem and manifesto, Hymn to Zeus; AND escorted by a series of Triptychs. The author's new poetic form that pays homage to the ancient Haiku and Rothko's brilliant muraled imagery.
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Genre: Poetry/Mythology/Philosophy
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil, NYC
Year: October 2017
Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology
ISBN: 978-1-938963-33-9 (Out-of-print)
ISBN: 978-1-938963-34-6
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Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology is a verse collection of Greek myths narrated through a series of contemporary parables. A myth is not a myth but rather reality being enacted everyday. The author appropriates portions of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound, synchronistic events and the mundane to explore a dialogue between humanity and the divine through mythology.
Two poetic forms, the sonnet and the newly designed triptych, delineate the book’s mythology. The triptych, inspired by the Homeric epigram, is a poetic hybrid premised upon the visual and literary arts. Read REVIEWS...
Genre: Poetry/Mythology/Philosophy
Publisher: Blue Scarab Press
Year: December 2015
Philosophy and Poetry
ISBN: 978-618-80327-1-2
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“Everything and nothing are liaison, concordant and discordant, consonance and dissonance, unity proceeding from all, all from one” denote the words of Heraclitus as he described cosmic harmony while western literature continued expressing a ceaseless interest in themes of duality as seen in the sonnet cycles depicting the Homeric epic, The Odyssey.
Co-authored with Evangelos Moutsopoulos, the "Philosopher of Kairicity" and member of The Athens Academy.
Genre: Philosophy/Poetry
Publisher: The Library of Alexandria, IFBA Press
Year: 2014
Excavated Athens to Alexandria
ISBN13: 978-1-938963-05-6
ISBN13: 978-1-938963-04-9 (Out-of-print)
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Her debut poetry collection is shaped with architecture built to stand the test of time. Her “dramatic voice and verse” reveals her nuance of newly received form called the Portico. The book is a celebration of architecture, language and history from Athens to Alexandria, the birth place of the modern world. Here antiquity and contemporary explore fragments extracted from the monumental to minimal and Doric order to the Chester drawer while revealing a continuum of architecture as a connective matrix uniting the arts and sciences. The hand brushed signature, sealed and numbered Collector's Edition is now out-of-print. Read REVIEWS...
Genre: Poetry
Publisher: Blue Scarab Press
Poetry Editor: A.E. Stallings
Year: 2013
The Portico Convention
ISBN13: 978-1-938963-07-0
ISBN13: 978-1-938963-06-3
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The Portico Convention is a new poetic form designed by G.F. Zaimis. Its shape employs a multi-disciplinary approach of integrating language with architecture while working with comparative literature and contemporary modernisms.
As seen in the tribute to T.S. Eliot, The Portico incorporates Vitruvian principles and Golden Ratio ideologies. The new form is read both horizontally and vertically.
Genre: Poetry/Architecture
Publisher: Blue Scarab Press
Year: 2013
Monumental Athens Urban
ISBN: 978-1-938963-02-5
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Monumental Athens Urban articulates an integrated vision of art and architecture while portraying urban design from the 'warp and woof' of Athens' sprawl.
The book includes statements by Ole Bouman, Alexandros Tombazis, Tadao Ando, Aaron Betsky, Minsuk Cho of Mass Studies, Elizabeth Diller of DS+R, Craig Dykers of SNØHETTA, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas of OMA, I.M. Pei, Renzo Piano, Kazuyo Sejima & more.
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Genre: Architecture/Photography
Publisher: Squared Editions
Year: 2012
VOLUME | PRIVATIZE!
ISBN: 978-90779663-0-3
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Is privatization the one-fits-all solution for every problem? Can addressing collective needs be thought of as the sum-total of numerous private initiatives? And will the retreat of government and state be compensated by other ways to organize the complex organism called society?
Volume maps realities, enlists challenges, and presents options. With peak previews into tomorrow's society and economy, a dossier on practices and principles of how to build and design around the globe, lessons in adaptation from Istanbul to the UK and special insert: Trust Design - Part 4. Contributions by Ginger F. Zaimis +++
Genre: Architecture/Design
Publisher: AMO, Columbia University's C-Lab & Archis
Editors: Arjen Oosterman, Ole Bouman, Mark Wigley and Jeffry Inaba
Year: 2012