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    On the Arc of Light and Silence
    On the Arc of Light and Silence
    On the Arc of Light and Silence
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    On the Arc of Light and Silence

    By Elias Margiolas and Christos Alexiou

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    The life experiences and feelings, the frights and agonies of the world are observed and expressed in the simplest, most immediate and succinct way in Margiolas' poetry.  Christos Alexiou


    "I took up writing, out of a personal need.


    To enhance my pace, even a bit.


    To understand the dimensions of the world, the responsibility of the Sun.


    To withstand the deluge of light and the wisdom of silence.


    To listen to the great poets raising life to its height.


    To hear the agonizing voice of Dionysios Solomos crying out loud for a free motherland! To hear Elytis apologizing for his century to the light of the Aegean.


    To hear the blind Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges shouting his belief that: ‘I lost nothing apart from the insignificant surface of things’ ". Elias Margiolas

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAKAKIA Publications
    Release dateMar 2, 2016
    ISBN9781910714881
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      On the Arc of Light and Silence - Elias Margiolas

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      FOREWORD

      It is a pleasure and honor for me to introduce Elias Margiolas’ third collection of poems. But before I speak about that collection, I thought it pertinent to summarily refer to his two previous ones so that the reader is offered a more complete assessment about that reflective and deeply emotional poet.

      Margiolas published his first collection of poems Melee weapons and Projectiles in 1996, with a foreword by M.G.Meraklis, which was awarded the Academy of Athens first prize for first-time poetry authors. In 2006, the Greek-Italian Chamber published his second collection of poems Of the Small Bear – Dell’ Orsa Minore in both Greek and Italian, translated by Nicola Piedimonte in an artistic edition, along with a CD with reciting of his poets by Anna Synodinou, Dimitris Piatas, Seraphim Fyntanides, Gregoris Valtinos, Telemachus Chytiris, and others.

      ‘The poet could have been an assailed person’ says Mihalis Meraklis, in his foreword of Margiolas’ first collection. ‘Yet, his voice, despite all the bitterness and agony it presupposes, possesses something that is unassailable’¹. This remark may be pertinent to the corpus of Margiolas’ poetry because it expresses the life view of a reflective man, who, despite the loss of his vision, he did not stop envisioning the beauty and the value of life and fight stubbornly for it, with a deep sense of respect, humility and responsibility.

      Indeed, in his 290, if I’m not mistaken, Melee weapons and Projectiles verses of his first collection, Margiolas sketches poetically and chants reflectively, with pithy austerity and remarkable dignity, without petty bitterness and taciturn tendencies, that ‘great and primary gift’, which is, as Solomos put it, life² itself, in a plethora of form, feeling and situations, personal and collective, recur in everyday life, like pure love, the bliss brought by the birth of a child, love that subdues the fear of death, companionship that subdues loneliness, the homeland and the world, full of immeasurable beauty and uncountable memories, the fight for every man’s right to life.

      In his second collection, Of the Small Bear with a foreword of poet Vasilis Rouvalis, Elias Margiolas recalls his wife, his children, his friends and all his beloved ones, who were the reason or the cause, because of their happy presence and painful absence, these wonderful poems were written, where feeling and meaning, life experience and dream, bliss and agony, anticipation and disappointment, sound and silence, are articulated in a classical expression in terms of its precision and succinctness. There is the woman, the precious partner in life, with whom he enters into a conversation with exquisite erotic remembrance and tenderness. There are his children, about whom he talks with elation and limitless fatherly affection. There are his friends and comrades in everyday life and social struggles who are recalled with a painful sense of their absence. Yet, in Margiolas’ poetry, the woman, the children,

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