Bøger af Dato Magradze

Featuring work from throughout his illustrious career, Footprints on Water marks the United States debut of Dato Magradze, who has earned international acclaim, including the Europe International Medal from Pope Benedict XVI, for his collection "Salve"; the Golden Feather from the International Federation of Journalists in 2005, for his text for the Georgian national anthem; and an international medal from the Academy of Culture of Verona, for his work promoting free speech. From the striking minimalism of "Caravan" to the genre-transcending epic of "Giacomo Ponti," this collection not only explores but transgresses the formal boundaries of poetics.

Reconnecting the poetic verb to a metaphysical vein, flowing in multiple registers of language, Dato Magradze addresses sensations of both individual and collective memory. The references to The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, to the Song of the Land by Mahler are transcended in a founding gesture: the poetic, political, cosmic hope of a possible transfiguration of a land plunged in desolation into a fertile land. At the end of this textual and existential transmutation, a fertile ground will unfold which reinvents a harmony with life. With the forms of matter and with the spirit. With coronation and with freedom.