My Afterlife Guaranteed

by Nanos Valaoritis

Book Overview

Full of wit and wonder, these prose poems, meditations, and narratives open onto rare and unexpected vistas of history and myth, language, and the art of writing.

. . .one of the most distinguished and enigmatic of modern Greek poets, full of Platonic wisdom. His originality of temperament is a most singluar thing. . . . his] new book is splendid. --Lawrence Durrell

The purpose of the book is twofold: first, to revise certain aspects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872862488
• ISBN13: 9780872862487
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Sudden Life...

Nanos is a tremendously ingenious poet, generating those sudden sparks that seem to occur out of nowhere, and normal reasoning is suspended... This makes one think differently, even magically. These little vignettes, prose poems, are startling in their utter simplicity, which is always puzzling and quite mysteriously wonderful. An absolute joy to read.