brilliant, provocative and innovative

AIKATERINI TEMPELI   |   September 2, 2024

I found him excellent, innovative, challenging, groundbreaking. A restless spirit, with a tendency to unfix every sacred symbol, and I'm not just referring to religious symbols. He does not hesitate in his poems to confront any political and artistic establishment, to sneer, mock, and ironize. The intergenerational conflicts of an entire country with a turbulent history, but of course also of himself, seem to be projected in his poetry, sometimes transposed or transmuted (to use psychoanalytic terms since I was tempted by the title of the collection and its references to Freud and less to Jung), to the political-economic-religious elite. In this context, there was no reason for me to be disturbed by his confrontation with the aunts. After all, it is also not given to anyone who brings laurels of social recognition, he does not hesitate to clash. His verses are characterized by directness, they reflect a deep critical thought and sometimes a revisioning mood

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