
The First Death is a book by Dimitris is part of the Poena Damni trilogy. Read Dimitris Lyacos poem:Shoestring Press, Nottingham, VIII. This English version has been translated by Shorsha Sullivan and includes illustrations.

The First Death is the third book in the narrative trilogy Poena Damni. I talked to Dimitris as well about it and that's how it came about." John Lucas has a continuing connection with Greece in the little flat that he and his.īy Dimitris Lyacos. Well, I'd seen the Greek version (of "The First Death"), and I talked with Shorsha Sullivan, the translator, and thought this is the kind of poem I'd like to do. Praised by the Italian critic Bruno Rosada for "the casting of emotion into an analytical structure and its distillation into a means of communication," young Athens-born poet Dimitris Lyacos's work has already made a significant impact across Europe, where it has been performed in a number of major cities. A booklet found by the protagonist of Z EXIT during the course of his voyage, The First Death tells the story of a marooned man on a desert island – or has him tell it/5.ĭimitris Lyacos's 'The First Death' is a meditation on mortality, disintegration and decay. Despite being first in the publication history of the Poena Damni trilogy, Dimitris Lyacos’s The First Death is the latest installment of the narrative sequence. In a sequence of fourteen sections the c. The white space around these passages heighten the stark sense of loneliness present in the book.

In Dimitris Lyacos’s The First Death densely layered fragments fluidly reference the Bible and Classical Greek literature.

THE FIRST DEATH by Dimitris Lyacos (Second Edition) Los Angeles USA Oct | by: Nicholas Alexander Hayes | Los Angeles USA. A booklet found by the protagonist of Z EXIT during the course of his voyage, The First Death tells the story of a marooned man on a desert island – or has him tell it.5/5(4).
