{"id":4446,"date":"2017-08-02T23:19:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T20:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-inon.gr\/magazine\/?p=4446"},"modified":"2017-08-02T23:19:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T20:19:52","slug":"poetry-is-the-best-wall-to-hide-our-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-inon.gr\/magazine\/2017\/08\/02\/poetry-is-the-best-wall-to-hide-our-face\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPoetry is the best wall to hide our face\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Manolis Anagnostakis
\nThe Cretan Poet<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPoetry is not the way to talk bur the best wall to hide our face. I get irritated by the pompous way of expression, big talk, the delayed show off of titles and credit which according to me very few people are entitled to have and they are those that do not demonstrate them. History was forged, humiliated and falsified. The issue is to not to rewrite history with silences, in the name of our own considerations this time.\u00a0 This fact throws us into a vicious circle of abortive and bad information regarding younger generations\u201d the doctor- radiologist Manolis Anagnostakis said characteristically.\u00a0 He is considered to be one of the leading poets and essayists of the post-war generation while he was imprisoned and sentenced to death for his political beliefs.
\nManolis Anagnostakis was born in Thessaloniki in 1925 but he came from the village Roustika in Rethymnon, where his father\u2019s house still exists.
\nHe studied medicine in Thessaloniki while during German Occupation he joined the EPON. Between the years 1943-1944 he was the chief editor of the magazine \u201cStart\u201d that belonged to the cultural group of the University of Thessaloniki while at the same time his first writings appeared in the \u201cLetters from Piraeus\u201d magazine. He was intensively politically involved in the student movement due to which he was imprisoned in 1948. The following year he was sentenced to death by a special military court but two years later in1951, the general amnesty freed him.
\nDuring the years 1955-1956 he specialized as a radiologist in Vienna and then he practiced his medicine in Thessaloniki. Between the years 1959 \u2013 1961 he published the \u201cReview\u201d journal while he was a member of the editorial group of the \u201cEighteen Texts\u201d (1970), the \u201cNew Texts\u201d and the \u201cContinuity\u201d magazine (1973). In 1978 he settled down in Athens.
\nManolis Anagnostakis left 88 poems published from 1941 until 1971. Since 1979 that his collective volume with his poems was released and since 1983 that his autobiographic comment \u2018P.S\u2019 was privately released, there was no public intervention on his behalf. Manolis Anagnostakis died on June 23rd in 2005 in Athens.
\nHis poems were translated in English, French, German and Italian while composers such as Mikis Theodorakis, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Michalis Grigoriou,\u00a0 Giannis Markopoulos and Dimitris Papadimitriou put music to his poems. He was awarded with the National Poetry Prize (1986) and the Grand Prize for Literature (2002), while he was proclaimed honorary doctor at the University of Thessaloniki.
\nHis main works are:
\n\u2013 Seasons, private edition, 1945.
\n\u2013 Seasons 2,private edition, 1948.
\n\u2013 Seasons 3, private edition, 1954.
\n\u2013 The Poems (1941-1956) private edition, 1956.
\n\u2013 The following 3,\u00a0 private collection, 1962.
\n\u2013 Pros and Cons, 1965.
\n\u2013 The Poems (1941-1971) private collection, 1971, Athens\u00a0 1976,\u00a0 Athens\u00a0 1985, Athens, 2000.
\n\u2013 Antidogmatika: Articles and notes\u00a0 (1946-1977), 1978 and\u00a0 1985.
\n\u2013 The margin\u00a0 \u201868-69, 1979.
\n\u2013 Manoussos Fassis: Children\u2019s muse (songs for pre-school and school ages), 1980.
\n\u2013 Additional (review notes), 1985.
\n\u2013 The poet Manoussos Fassis, his life and work. A first attempt of a critical approach, 1987.
\n\u2013 Low Voice: The lyrics of a past era in the old rates \u2013 a personal anthology of Manolis Anagnostakis, 1990.<\/p>\n

Source of publication \u00a0<\/em>14th edition In-On<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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