Armies of Compassion

By Eleni Stecopoulos

Poetry. "'Philosophy never confesses / its delicate condition' writes Eleni Stecopoulos, as she takes on the inherently vulnerable role of investigative poet, asking whether the body, personal and politic, is irrevocably split off in its systemic afflictions. In this book Stecopoulos deploys the paradoxical force/fragility of poetry at all too familiar sites of our abjection. She does this with historically aware wisdom and humor. Can words help, not as palliative or consolation, but as source of transfiguring energy? 'Levitating girls' hover over 'lines gathering / all the intelligence' of an intellectually astute imagination steeped in, among many aesthetic legacies, that of ancient Greece, where the fact 'that the god descends on creaking pulleys in no way undermines the apparition.' This poet has the guts and strategy (persistent courage) of what she calls 'choric goals...waiting in the echo / for a tone,' subtending towards love"--Joan Retallack.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098430990X
• ISBN13: 9780984309900
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Palm Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.3" x 5.3"