Stein & Cavafy Echoing Voices: Poiesis in Motion

Tatiani Rapatzikou (Professor, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.)
(assistant coordinator and editor: Aristeidis Kleiotis)

This year’s Poiesis project focuses on the impact of two major poetic voices, those of Gertrude Stein and C. P. Cavafy.

All contributors – scholars, writers and university students –who participate in the current endeavor have attempted to creatively converse with Stein’s and Cavafy’s distinct style with regard to how identity and gender subjectivity are articulated. I’d like to thank Dr. Vasiliki Misiou (Assistant Professor, School of English, AUTh) for the feedback and guidance she’s offered to everyone involved for the effective presentation of the material published.

The essays, reflections, and creative pieces that feature in our current Poiesis project reveal each contributor’s personal insight into Stein’s and Cavafy’s poetic craft and language dynamics. Being motivated by the richness and versatility of the two poets’ writing, the contributors delve into their own inner discoveries and interpretative explorations. What this reveals is the forcefulness of cross-cultural engagement with the creative energy that derives from diverse geographical, historical and subjective landscapes of experience, as this is evidenced in Stein’s and Cavafy’s own poetic narratives.

Stein & Cavafy Echoing Voices: Poiesis in Motion

Ελισάβετ Αρσενίου: Decompressing Tender Buttons: Finding Stein’s Foreign Languages (notes on a ‘carafe’)
Έρση Σωτηροπούλου: The making of a poet: erotic desires and the struggle with words 
Ζωή Βρέντζου:The Poetics of Beauty: Visions and Revisions of Cavafy and Stein
Θωμαίς Γκατζούνη: everything i didn’t say // όσα δεν πρόλαβα να πω
Πολυξένη Ριστάνη: Critical Note for “Oleander ή Πικροδάφνη”