EoS

by Matina Stamatakis

20 pages

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

has been published in a wide variety of literary/art magazines, such as zafusy, Eratio, Intercapillary Space, Apocryphaltext, The Volta, Big Bridge, Drunken Boat, Word for/ Word, La Petite Zine, Dusie, Inertia, BlazeVox, After Hours, Free Verse, Milk, Coconut, Moria and many more.

Reviews

[Matina]

The underlying nature of the visible world.
Speculative commotions and elegant disturbances.


In Matina L. Stamatakis’ new chapbook EoS, an internal combustion is at work. (Once again the dawn goddess seems to be ready to open the gates so that her brother Helios can ride the sky.)

Anti)matter
// all poem //


Mischievously and delicately arranged all over
the page, the lively poems act like a gravitational pull, while they take up numerous challenges.

In Of Unattainable Knowledge:
// from beginning to his foe //



Carefully chosen words that throw back the inhospitable reality, and explore the structures we often accept too easily. Experimental/sensual writing as a blueprint of a new celestial body?

In Simulacrum:
// from beginning to origami //



Exciting journey to the origins. Abrasive melancholy. Matina L. Stamatakis’ poetry
seems to call upon a new birth, another « eXistenZ ». Mutations and Transcience included.

Aurora[e]
// all poem //


Something of J. K. Huysmans’ novel “Against the Grain” comes to mind from time to time. (Des Esseintes, the main character, is an aesthete, found of the Symbolist movement. He studies Moreau's paintings, tries his hand at inventing perfumes, and creates a garden of poisonous flowers.)
Matina L. Stamatakis’ own garden is full of cosmic rays. (Another kind of flowers, but
still intoxicating ones).

The collection ends with the moving
Father
- for Neruda
// from beginning to hummingbird //


Neruda the fighting man. The poet in exile
finds a welcoming place here.


Roving on the plane of the ecliptic, the linguistic constructions of EoS, graceful in forms and movements, will haunt the reader’s mind
through associations or natural connections of ideas.
Like music suggesting a (not so) quiet night
and a fecund dawn.



Thierry Brunet