Before Lyricism by Eleni Vakalo, trans. by Karen Emmerich J.o. Morgan His high-definition observation is informed

His high-definition observation is informed by an ecologist’s eye

tear-bringers

for the elegy and the urgency and the prophecy

’ – Sasha Dugdale

including anthology favourites such as 'The Christmas Life'

Before Lyricism by Eleni Vakalo, trans. by Karen Emmerich J.o. Morgan His high-definition observation is informedBefore Lyricism includes six book length poems: "The Forest" (1954), "Plant Upbringing" (1956), "Diary of Age" (1958), "Description of the Body" (1959), "The Meaning of the Blind" (1962), and "Our Way of Being in Danger" (1966). Each of these, apart from Plant Upbringing, was published as a separate book, which Vakalo herself designed. (Plant Upbringing was originally included in the volume Wall Painting, of which Vakalo later repudiated all but this