Dēmētrēs Lyakos

Z213: EXIT marks the beginning of Dimitris Lyacos' poetic trilogy Poena Damni. Written over the course of seventeen years, in reverse order, the present publication sees the trilogy's completion. The last episode, The First Death, was the first to appear in 1996, followed by the second, Nyctivoe, in 2001. The Poena Damni trilogy both straddles and crosses perceived boundaries of literary form - from the journal-like prose in Z213: EXIT, to the elliptical monologues of the distinctly dramatic Nyctivoe, to the pared down poetic idiom in The First Death. Z213: EXIT provides the main axis for the narrative: from its description of the protagonist's escape to a barren and distorted - but nonetheless real - world will emerge the grotesque ritual of redemption, enacted by the proles of Nyctivoe and, finally, the struggle of the mutilated hero on the island in The First Death.

Poena Damni

Z213 : Exit

Lyacos. Dimitris

With the People from the Bridge

Dimitris Lyacos

This is an English translation of the third part of Athenian poet Dimitris Lyacos's poetry trilogy Poena Damni, originally published in Greece in 1996. The volume also contains six masks by the Austrian artist Friedrich Unegg.

Dēmētrēs Lyakos

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