Ionian Odes: Poetic tales where metaphors sing

By Mirta Dubischar Panagiotopoulos

"Odes Ioniennes" is a poetic journey that retraces 36 years of beautiful memories and reveries around the small port of Parga, in Greece. This edition includes the English version together with the poems translated into Greek.
The author, Mirta Dubischar Panagiotopoulos, a visual artist, accompanies her texts with some twenty superb illustrations of her own creation. This is a collection tinged with the dreamlike scents of Greece.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Sep 5, 2023
• ISBN: 9782322492152

Mirta Dubischar Panagiotopoulos

Mirta Dubischar Panagiotopoulos is an Argentinian visual artist who has lived in Paris since 1973. In 1986, dazzled by a friend's description, she discovered the small port of Parga in Greece. This collection of poems reflects her attachment to the region of Epirus, and in particular Parga, where she now lives part of the year.

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To my children and grandchildren,

To my friend Pablo García, who introduced me to Parga,

To my friends in Parga,

To Giannis Kostas,

M.D.P.

Στα παιδιά μου, στα εγγόνια μου,

Στον φίλο μου Pablo García που με σύστησε στην Πάργα,

Στους φίλους μου από την Πάργα,

Στον Γιάννη Κώστα,

Μ.Δ.Π.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

ΠΡΌΛΌΓΌΣ

PARIS-PARGA, IN YOUR EMBRACE

ΠΑΡΊΣΊ-ΠΑΡΓΑ ΜΈΣΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΓΚΑΛΊΑ ΣΟΥ

I SHALL RETURN

ΘΑ ΞΑΝΑΡΘΩ

MEMORIES… NIKOPOLIS, NEKROMANTEIO ACHERON, AMOUDIA

ΑΝΑΜΝΗΣΈΊΣ… ΝΊΚΟΠΟΛΗ, ΝΈΚΡΟΜΑΝΤΈΊΟ ΑΧΈΡΩΝ, ΑΜΜΟΥΔΊΑ

IN MEMORIAM

ΈΊΣ ΜΝΗΜΗΝ

THE ANGEL OF ARILLA

Ο ΑΓΓΈΛΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΊΛΛΑΣ

THE DREAMING ANGEL

Ο ΟΝΈΊΡΟΦΟΡΟΣ ΑΓΓΈΛΟΣ

STRANGE NIGHT IN PARGA

ΠΈΡΊΈΡΓΗ ΝΥΧΤΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΓΑ

THE DREAM

ΤΟ ΟΝΈΊΡΟ

NOSTALGIA

ΝΟΣΤΑΛΓΊΑ

SHE

ΈΚΈΊΝΗ

THE BEINGS OF OBLIVION

ΟΝΤΑ ΤΗΣ ΛΗΘΗΣ

YOU AND I

ΈΣΥ ΚΊ ΈΓΩ

IN THE CHAPEL

ΜΈΣΑ ΣΤΟ ΠΑΡΈΚΚΛΗΣΊ

LIVE

ΖΗΣΈ

IN THE SUBTERRANEAN BLUE OF DAWN

ΜΈΣ ΣΤΟ ΥΠΟΓΈΊΟ ΜΠΛΈ ΤΗΣ ΑΥΓΗΣ

THE MESSENGER PARTRIDGE

Η ΑΓΓΈΛΊΑΦΟΡΟΣ ΠΈΡΔΊΚΑ

PREFACE

Ionian Odes is a poetic journey inspired by nature's resplendent beauty and an atmosphere where mythology radiates as a wondrous treasure. The sea, Greece's storied past, both ancient and modern, its mythos, traditions, and the splendor of its landscapes, all serve as wellsprings for my creativity and dreams.

This collection of verses forms an integral part of my endeavor to nurture artistic and cultural bridges connecting France and Greece. It stands as an extension of the Paris-Parga Contemporary Art initiative, which I've been fostering since 2015. This initiative encompasses the annual exhibitions I've orchestrated alongside fellow French and Epirotic painters within the fortress of Parga, an effort