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Time stitches by Eleni Kefala, Peter Constantine is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Time stitches about?

Winner of the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus and the Elizabeth Constantinides translation Prize of the Modern Greek Studies Association, these experimental linked poem-threads move across time, linking a young Cypriot to ancestors, contemporaries, and descendants through striking, disparate polyphony. In this bilingual collection of linked poems, Kefala creates a tapestry of motifs that transcend time and identity across early 20th Century Cyprus, 16th Century Scotland, a sailor on Christopher Columbus' ship La Pinta, and more. As the poem threads draw together, it is as if the protagonist, in his travels through the twentieth century, encounters Odysseus, Cervantes, Columbus, Rembrandt, and others, all moving in multidimensional synchronicity. In this way, the readers take part in the production of meaning by pulling the threads together, stitching together their own reading of the story. Through the reading of these threads, time remains fluid, creating a masterful declaration about the function of poetry: perhaps history is nothing more than the presence of innumerable human voices, some more and some less powerful, coexisting in an eternal present.

Who reads Time stitches?

Author

Eleni Kefala, Peter Constantine

Publisher

Deep Vellum Publishing

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781646051854

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities