Tasos Leivaditis (Greek: Τάσος Λειβαδίτης; 1922–1988) was a Greek poet, short story writer and literary critic who belonged to the postwar generation that was deeply marked by the struggles and failures of the communist movement. His early and politically committed poetry travelled through the ‘fire and sword’ of history, transforming in the end into powerful and paradoxical prose-poems, and displaying an erotically charged form of ‘neo-romanticism’ mixed with ‘melancholic minimalism’ where “genuine humility offers obeisance to the magic of language.”
ω μας ξεγέλασαν οι εποχές, η τύχη, τα όνειρα, οι φίλοι όλα τόσο αβέβαια, λες και το παρελθόν να μην υπήρξε παρά μόνο στη φαντασία σου ή στη βιαστική διήγηση κάποιου που τον συναντήσαμε μια στιγμή στο δρόμο, ενώ έβρεχε...