"Antigone the Heroic Crown" just got #wings ...
***ABOUT 'Antigone the Heroic Crown', the debut poetry and book ...
A progressed mythology of Sophocles' mythology, Ginger F. Zaimis begins where Sophocles ends in dialogue with Antigone. Our heroine serves as metaphor for both individual and Humanity. The work is composed in three acts encompasing (15) interconnecting sonnets which as a whole serve as 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 and form are derived from the classical Italian sonnet cycle 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.
***PRAISE for 'Antigone the Heroic Crown' ...
“Philosophy resounds throughout…The rhythm of thoughts, association of ideas and sounds are in service like memorial… Yet here, is another Antigone – ‘another’ as per the late George Steiner suggests, theoretical infinity of a heroine’s permutations, cross time. Ginger’s poem illustrates that intellect and emotion can be expressed with intensity and warmth which philosophy ordinarily abjures. The work is both philosophical mediation and elegy.”
Ioannis Petropoulos
Professor of Ancient Greek Literature & Classics
Director Emeritus, Centre for Hellenic Studies
Harvard University
“Ginger’s perspectives of the past and present, progress a dialogue through reflection to re-foundation the new for the future…”
Caterina Carpinato
Professor of Language, Letters & Modern Greek
Vice Rector of Humanities
Ca’Foscari University, Venice
“Imbued by her progressed mythology of Antigone, Ginger’s ekphrastic sonnets bridge a multifarious performance with philosophical, ontological suggestion to heal the archetype of the feminine, Human condition.”
Liana Sakelliou
Poet (Modern Greek & English)
Professor, Creative Writing & American Literature
“The intersection of poetry, philosophy and mythology in G.F. Zaimis’ work sparkles with erudition and love of language.”
Giuseppe Albano, MBE
Director
Freud Museum, London
***EXCERPTS from ...
"Like Proclus interpreted Plato's universe
Two perspectives drawn out that converge
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And like the 'painting which is not picture'
Rather, the essence of experiences mixture
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Can't they see 'life doubles back on itself'
Like two lines bending into one as they sway
Encircled; again and again to remind ourselves
We are only, 'particles suspended in the haze'
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Yet know Arigone it is you who co-creates
Like the chef that prepares food for the plate
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Rise, rise -- rise Antigone from misery's ash
Forgive and forget the chess game dashed
You my child arrived at victory's gate
Non neither Creon's decree, can longer enslave...
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