Of course, we are already in a new cultural condition, where different and eccentric artistic and reading examples are emerging
A poetry full of ideas is not something new, and we have enough such examples, such as that of Byron Leontaris or that of Stefanos Rozanis, that we should consider them as reactions to the pervasive and ultimately dominant sentimentality of post-war poetry. It took years and many episodes, until both of them tamed their essayistic self, subjecting it to the power and needs of poetic discourse.
In the case of Giorgos Handzis, things are even more difficult, because we are dealing with a poetry that is systematically, I would say programmatically philosophic, whose torrential disposition results from his philosophical studies. Such a poetry, as well as the milder in this regard by other, non-“systematic” ones, such as Giorgos Blanas and Evgenios Aranitsis, is in fact a reaction to the poetic idiom of the “generation of the ’70s”, dominant nowadays through the its survival as a “poetic common”, staged as a “careless” and certainly shallow excursion into the era.
In fact, Hantzis burdens his project even more, since he does not proceed by “implementing” or “applying” in fact some philosophical ideas, but his involvement with them constantly “pulls” him on the method, that is, on the discourse on the conceptual and theoretical conditions of poetry, in aesthetics. Thus, the burden of mottos, quotations, texts, becomes unbearable – at least for the horizon of expectations and the reading endurance of our days.
Of course, we are already in a new cultural condition, where different and eccentric artistic and reading examples make up special areas, equally open, such as e.g. that of linguistic timelessness or the corresponding rhythmicity, so this choice of Hantzis is not an incomprehensible peculiarity of his writing. Rather, it is one more note in a multi-faceted, multi-meaning, multi-spliced landscape, a result of the crisis of the centuries-old dominant modern paradigm and its modernist offshoots.
From here, of course, arises the demand for the reorganization of the word and the world, with new grand narratives, of a completely different texture and character, in relation to the exaptations of the past. The book by Giorgos Handzis highlights this request, submitting his own proposal and narrative. How well it will thrive, clarifying a bill, is the question.
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