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Selected Poems
KIKI DIMOULA
TRANSLATED BY
CECILE INGLESSIS MARGELLOS
AND RIKA LESSER
A MARGELLOS
WOR L D R E P U B L I C O F L E T T E R S B O O K
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Copyright 2012 by Yale University. English translations copyright 2012 by Cecile Inglessis
Margellos and Rika Lesser. The Somatics of Semantics 2012 by Rika Lesser. Greek poems
originally appeared in the following collections: (1998), 1998, 1999, 2002,
2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 by Kiki Dimoula and Ikaros Publishing Company;
(1998), 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2010 by Kiki Dimoula and
Ikaros Publishing Company; H A (2001), 2001, 2002, 2005,
2009 by Kiki Dimoula and Ikaros Publishing Company; O I (2005),
2005, 2006 by Kiki Dimoula and Ikaros Publishing Company;
(2007), 2007, 2008 by Kiki Dimoula and Ikaros Publishing Company;
(2010), 2010, 2011 by Kiki Dimoula and Ikaros Publishing Company.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Demoula, Kike.
[Poems. English. Selections]
The brazen plagiarist : selected poems / Kiki Dimoula ; translated by Cecile Inglessis
Margellos and Rika Lesser. 1st ed.
p. cm. (Margellos World Republic of Letters)
A Margellos World Republic of Letters book.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978- 0-300-14139- 9 (alk. paper)
I. Margellos, Cecile Inglessis, 1953II. Lesser, Rika.III. Title.
PA5615.E474A22012
889.134dc23
2012019119
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
This paper meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.481992 (Permanence of Paper).
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Love:
noun, substantive,
extremely substantive,
singular in number;
gender not feminine, not masculine,
gender defenseless.
Plural the number
of defenseless loves.
Fear:
substantive,
singular to start with
plural afterward:
fears.
Fears of
everything from now on.
Memory:
noun, proper name for sorrows,
singular in number,
singular only,
and indeclinable.
Memory, memory, memory.
Night:
substantive,
gender feminine,
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number singular.
Plural in number
the nights.
The nights from now on.
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