Excavated Athens to Alexandria

by G.F. Zaimis, A. E. Stallings (Editor)

Overview

In Excavated, G.F. Zaimis shapes her debut poetry collection with architecture built to stand the test of time. Classically contemporary, the poetry is designed with Vitruvian principles that imbue architecture as language and letters while uniting established poetic convention. Her sonnets resonate while her "dramatic voice and verse" reveal her nuance of new shape and form as seen through the Portico Convention. Reminiscent of archaeology, her poetry excavates ideas from an illustrious past of mythology, philosophy, reality and mental photographs. Her text-tile used to integrate poetic shape with architectural methodology. Excavated is a celebration of architecture, language and history from Athens to Alexandria, the birth place of the modern world. Here antiquity and contemporary explore fragments extracted from the monumental to minimal and Doric order to the Chester drawer while revealing a continuum of architecture as a connective matrix uniting the arts and sciences.

ISBN13: 978-1-938963-05-6 eBook
ISBN13: 978-1-938963-04-9 Limited Edition

Table of Contents

Preface

I. of Architecture
Orders | Doric, Ionic and Corinthian
Pediment
Kouros in drag
Design | an abstract
Lettered frieze

II. of Hellas
Therapy with Antigone
Hymn to Euterpe
The Fates
Vernacular
Greeking
F????? | ftho-nos
The A Principles
The Marti
Satirical
Synthetic use
Greece forsakes Athena
Tale of two

III. of Alexandria
Alexander's begetting
Alexander at Siwa
Fundamental division
Your month of Athyr
Darkness
Mavri'patra
The Pharos
Permanent
Sound
Geography

IV. of America
Charleston
Hopedfuls
Empty living
Suggestion
Silver service

V. Time and Space
Divided
Shooting star
Mistakes
Purging
Etheric
Reference
Great expectations
Everything or nothing
Love is to burn
The door

Acknowledgements
Colophon
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Back Cover – Propylaia poem

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148358404
Publisher:	IDEAlab Editions by Blue Scarab Press
Publication date:	12/09/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	100
File size:	730 KB

About the Author

G.F. Zaimis is an American essayist, poet, adviser and photographer who specializes in architectural forms. She is the Arts and Literary Chair for the International Friends of Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Greece), The Library of Alexandria.

Her writing explores the intersections of contemporary modernisms, comparative literature and philosophy to connect multi-disciplinary dialogues with language, mythology, history and quantum theory while uniting the arts and sciences. Her work has been presented at centers for contemporary art, biennials and museums.

She is the author of Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology, Excavated Athens to Alexandria, Monumental Athens Urban, the architect of Portico Convention and the literary Triptych (two new poetic forms) and the co-author of Philosophy and Poetry. Her poetic perspectives have been endorsed by The National Book Critics Circle.

About the Editor
Poetry Editor, A.E. Stallings, is the author of three collections, Olives, Hapax and Archaic Smile. She is the Latin to English verse translator of Lucretius' The Nature of Things and a Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow (2011). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Editorial Reviews

"G.F. Zaimis' intelligence sparkles as she displays a delightful grasp of history, the arts, and science, and proves that the sonnet is more than merely a little song of love, that it can and must contain multitudes of voices and address infinite concerns."

Author of All of You on the Good Earth and Sixty Sonnets - ERNEST HILBERT

"These are lofty, learned poems with beautiful individual voices and a nearly perfect aura of timelessness. The sonnets are well crafted and show an aptitude for dramatic voice and verse."

Author of Logician of the Wind and Pythagoras in Love - LEE SLONIMSKY

"Her perspectives are imbued in that unparalleled metaphor of life, Cavafy's Ithaca which she bonds language and interpretation through her architectural vision."

Author and translator of C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems, Oxford World Classics - EVANGELOS SACHPEROGLOU

"The poetry of G.F. Zaimis intertwines memory and emotion with an illustrious past, myth and history. Textual significance is built through unique intertext inviting the reader to discover the layers of the psyche in a process akin to the excavation of a city beneath a city."

Author of Seferis and Elytis as Translators - IRENE LOULAKAKI-MOORE