Trying to get some more information on Nikos Gatsos, I found Jon Corelis
introduction on Lynx by Douglas Clark,
http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx/lynx211.html
and thus ventured to look for Amorgòs finding two translations, an English
one:
http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/issue4/amorgos.html
and the Italian one:
http://www.poesia.it/servizi/servizio_07-08_01.htm
My praise goes to the English version, maybe not thanks to the capacity of
the translator (I also think that the Italian translator did a respectful
work); but to the richness in terms of the English language which is
particularly evaluated in poetry. This said, Nikos Gatsos is a new
revelation to me, as much as Andre Edy was, and what touched me most is the
remark by Corelis when speaking of Greek Surrealism, this piercing through
reality which is absurd and becomes surreal, if I understood right.
And by following Randolph's first link, Representative Poems Online, I
scrolled down chronologically to Mark Doty who can be signalled for the
tangible sense of "foreigness" he is able to convey in The Ancient World
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/displaypoem.cfm?poemnum=694
and for his anguishing feeling in front of death in Atlantis
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/displaypoem.cfm?poemnum=695
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