The Passkeys

by George Pavlopoulos, Darlene Fife (Translator)

A chapbook of poems, originally published in Greek in 1988 by Stigmi Press in Athens.

The translation copyright dates from 1994, though there's no indication as to whether or not the translated copy (printed by Roadrunner Press) dates the same.

Chapbook

Reviews

[Octavia Cade · Rating 4 out of 5]

An obscure little translated chapbook that moves between fantasy and reality. The title poem, "The Passkeys", is probably the finest description of the problem of poetry I've ever come across - how to access it, how it can be interpreted in a multitude of ways. "Poetry is an open door"... well, sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. That single poem pushed my rating up from three to four stars. It deserves to be better known!