Yannis Livadas

Portrait of Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas is a contemporary Greek poet, born in 1969. He refused to join the army, to complete the formal schooling and to study at some university as a result of his belief in individualist anarchism. Livadas' unique aesthetic position, both in his poems and his essays, constitutes the idea of experimentalism based on organic antimetathesis - the scaling indeterminacy of meaning, of syntactic comparisons and structural contradistinction. He believes that poetry is creation/synthesis and stands beyond the limits of expressional writing; that poetry is the action of ultimate difference within the same thing. He is also an editor; essayist, translator, of more than fifty books of American poetry and prose; an independent scholar with specialization on literary modernism, postmodernism and haiku. He is also a columnist and freelancer contributor to various literary magazines, both in Greece and other countries. His poems and essays have been translated into six languages [English, French, Indian (Bangla), Croatian, Spanish and Serbian]. He lives in Paris, France.

Bibliography

Poetry

Prose

Jazz

'Round About Jazz (France, Lulu.com 2012)

Translations

Works as editor, partial translator and author of introduction:

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Interviews