Time Stitches

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Poems

By Eleni Kefala

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Time Stitches by Eleni Kefala is an experimental collection of linked poems that traverse time and culture. The threads connect a young Cypriot with ancestors, contemporaries, and descendants, spanning locations and eras including early 20th Century Cyprus, 16th Century Scotland, and the voyage of Christopher Columbus. The poetic narrative invites readers to weave together encounters with historical figures such as Odysseus, Cervantes, and Rembrandt, emphasising the fluidity of time and the collective human experience.
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This bilingual poetry collection appeals to readers interested in experimental poetry, historical and cultural themes, and those who appreciate a complex, multi-layered poetic experience exploring identity and temporality.

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Winner of the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus, 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, Eleni 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 in Time Stitches, 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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781646051847

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 December 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Deep Vellum Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Translated by Peter Constantine
Translated by Peter Constantine
Translated by Peter Constantine

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 216

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Arts & Culture Eleni Kefala Non-Fiction Poetry

About the Author

Eleni Kefala grew up in Cyprus and is currently a Professor of Latin American Literature at St. Andrews University in Scotland. She has published two books of poetry, Memory and Variations (2007), which was shortlisted for the Diavazo Literary Prize in Greece (first-time author), and Time Stitches (published in Greek in 2013), which received the State Prize for Poetry in Cyprus. Her work has been translated into English, Italian, French, Turkish, and Bulgarian.

Peter Constantine is a literary translator and editor, and the director of the Literary Translation Program at the University of Connecticut. His recent translations, published by Random House (Modern Library), include The Essential Writings of Rousseau, The Essential Writings of Machiavelli, and works by Tolstoy, Gogol, and Voltaire. His translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel received the Koret Jewish Literature Award and a National Jewish Book Award citation. A Guggenheim Fellow, he was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann, and the National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov.