Promise = Yposchesi / Dmitris Tsaloumas, Petr Herel
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- Bib ID:
- 7129242
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Tsaloumas, Dimitris, 1921-2016, author
- Uniform Title:
- Yposchesi English
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. SR 763 copy
- Description:
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- [Canberra and Losne] : Labyrinth Press, [1996]
- 8 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 22 x 21 cm.
- Summary:
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Tsaloumas' poem is presented first in English translation in a small uppercase font (6½ point Monotype Bodoni), followed by a version handwritten in Greek by the poet. The translation is by Philip Grundy (1932-2007), a Canberra-based scholar and literary translator who co-founded Leros Press (which published bilingual volumes of poetry in a variety of languages); he was a champion of multiculturalism and perhaps best known as translator of Tsaloumas, but was fluent in Greek, Ancient Greek, French, German, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish. Frédérique Martin-Scherrer notes that the graphic elements (two states of the same plate) emerge like a response to the lines from the poem: "I need to study / another alphabet, to explain ... / the confines / of imagination." The plates and text were printed in Canberra, at the Graphic Investigation Workshop (the text using formes set and posted by Thierry Bouchard in Losne). The two illustrations are successive states of the same plate: the first, without aquatint, against the English text; the second, with aquatint, against the Greek text.
- Notes:
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- "Greek text translated by Philip Grundy. 3 original etchings by Petr Herel. Typography, Thierry Bouchard and Danie Mellor. Edition of 15 copies. Canberra, GIW."-Colophon.
- National Library of Australia's SR 763 copy was donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program and is no. 13/15, signed by Petr Herel, 1997.
- SR 763 copy also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-501876671
- Text in Modern Greek, with an English translation.
- Cited In:
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- Labyrinth Press books 1980-2007 ; 18
- Bibliographie des livres imprimés en typographie de 1975 à 2006 par Thierry Bouchard sur ses presses de Losne ; 276
- Subject:
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- Also Titled:
- Yposchesi
- Copyright Information:
- In copyright. You may use the online copy for research or study; for other uses contact us.
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1996
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