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Maintenant #22: Kostas Koutsourelis
I believe that the excessive individualism concerning the means of expression, to which we were led during the 20th century, this constant and forced hunting of innovation that Ezra Pound called “Make it new!”, all this led contemporary poetry to a dead-end. When every poet has no other goal than to create a formal language which would be only his or hers, the result can not be other than the alienation of poetry from its audience… Nonetheless, poetry is not fashion; it does not need to reinvent itself every five or ten years in order to comply with the standards of consumption… The important thing is to render them new life.
For the 22nd in the Maintenant series, SJ Fowler interviews the Greek poet Kostas Koutsourelis.
Four Poems
In this mausoleum of words
every page guards
an uncertain memory,
a dusty immortality
Sometimes
in hours unpredictible
a stranger leafs slowly through the emptiness
and from the bottom of the pages
a frozen music
starts crackling
By Kostas Koutsourelis.