Paralogues

Evan Jones

• Publisher: Carcanet Poetry
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781847771377
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847776419
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

Paralogues, which takes its title from the Greek word for ballads', is the British début of an original Canadian poet and editor. Evan Jones explores Greek mythology, Roman and Byzantine history, art and travel, from contemporary perspectives. The myth of Actaeon is re-imagined in three ways, and Paralogues concludes with a sequence retelling the Byzantine folk ballad Constantine and Arete'. Translation is central to the collection, from the modern Greek of Miltos Sachtouris to the Austrian German of Raoul Schrott. Readers encounter people and places real and imagined: the lonely figure of the poet Cavafy in Victorian Liverpool, God in post-war Paris, the landscapes of Europe and North America at once familiar and unfamiliar.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Self-portrait with Argus the Hundred-Eyed
• Little Notes on Painting
• Portrait (Artist’s Model, Sleeping Nude)
• Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna Merchant
• Letter to Sofia
• Cavafy in Liverpool
• The Intercity Express Passes Günzburg
• Sheep or Llama
• Burgau to Ulm, Bundesland Bavaria
• Bundesland Bavaria, between Deffingen and Denzingen
• God in Paris, 1945
• Santorini
• The Devoted Widow
• Justinian’s Advisors Recall Him Prophesying
• Journey
• Three Actaeons
• How I Became one of my Poems
• I Went Down to the Sea
• Prayer to Saint Agatha
• For One Whose Name God Knows
• Lines Attributed to Michael Psellus Concerning the Deaths of Twelve Apostles
• Constantine and Arete: an autobiography
• Note
• About the Author
• Also by Evan Jones from Carcanet Press
• Copyright