Mythopia

by Stephan Attia

In this eclectic poetry collection, ‘Mythopia’, the description of a new spirit of poetry is transferred through alliteration, analogies, and aphorism. The novelty that occupied the mind of the poet is expressed through the use of short descriptive emotions on one hand, and through the poet’s calls for darling maidens to escape with him the reality of modern society on the other hand. The calls of the lover to break free from the shackles of prosaic life, symbolizes his rebellion against the tyranny and madness of the new modern world. The poet encourages the reader to return to the epic world, to paradise, in order to restore love, harmony, and peace. Apart from the poems of love refuge, some other deep messages, in other poems, stir the heart of the reader and stimulate it to a point of intrigue. Realism in some of the poems is physical, but always followed by literary criticism which was deployed in order to make the reader aware of the collective’s faults in such realities. The references to names of countries change the concept of relative realism, as here the abstract poems become more poignant and tangible rather than metaphysical. However, the poems about paradise, Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and God and the devil, offset the balance as here the mind’s stimuli shifts the readers’ attention from emotional energy to a surge of intellectualism.

214 pages, Paperback

First published November 9, 2013