Poetic Dialogues: NYC to Athens
- @TheAthensCentre
- May 5, 2016
- 2 min read
On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 @ 7.00 p.m. at The Athens Centre, two poets with connections to New York City and Athens, Greece, Lee Slonimsky and Ginger F. Zaimis will read a selection of poetry and philosophy.
Lee Slonimsky will read from his recently published English/French edition of sonnet sequence entitled, Pythagoras in Love/Pythagore, Amoureux translated from English to French verse by the American poet, Elizabeth J. Coleman. Rachel Hadas writes about this edition, “Lee Slonimsky's beautiful sonnets…are chastened by...their limits (which) are also enriching and generative…Elizabeth J. Coleman’s elegant translation…sometimes recalls the elemental lyricism of Yves Bonnefoy.”
Ginger F. Zaimis will read from a selection of collected poetry emphasizing philosophy and poetic form from the sonnet, portico and her newly designed, triptych. All imbued through an architectural, philosophical lens. Rachel Hadas writes about Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology (2015), “Ginger Zaimis sometimes sounds like Heraclitus - fragmentary, abrupt, vatic and witty...Remarkable!” and Lee Slonimsky writes, "Her poetry is lofty, learned poems with beautiful individual voices and nearly perfect aura of timelessness. Her ability to synthesize architecture, language, poetry, art and philosophy embodies a deeply holistic and comprehending vision constituting a centralizing metaphor similar to a building like the Parthenon”.
ABOUT LEE SLONIMSKY
Lee Slonimsky has published six collections of poems with a seventh forthcoming. His sonnet sequence Pythagoras in Love/Pythagore Amoureux (2007) was recently translated into French (2015) by the gifted poet and Poetry Society of America’s Vice President, Elizabeth J. Coleman, published in a bilingual edition by Folded Word Press. Lee’s new collection, Consulting with the Swifts: New and Selected 1982 to 2015, with a foreword by Rachel Hadas, will be published in 2016 by Spuyten Duyvil Press. Lee is also the manager of a NYC based hedge fund, Ocean Partners LP, that has a special interest in humane, pro-animal investing, in the best tradition of the Pythagorean doctrine of Transmigration of Souls. Lee a friend of Athens, Greece lives in New York City.
ABOUT GINGER F. ZAIMIS
G.F. Zaimis is an American essayist, poet, photographer and playwright who specializes in architectural forms. Her work explores the intersections of art/architecture, contemporary modernisms, comparative literature, philosophy and quantum theory to connect dialogues with language, mythology and history while uniting the arts and sciences. She is the Arts & Literary Chair for the International Friends of Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Greece), The Library of Alexandria and the author of Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology (2015), Excavated Athens to Alexandria (2013), the architect of the poetic forms, the Portico Convention and the Triptych, as well as the co-author of Philosophy and Poetry (2014). Ginger a former resident of New York City now lives in Athens, Greece. Follow her on YouTube & Twitter @gfzaimis
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