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Elytis

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El·y·tis  (l-ts), Odysseus 1911-1996.
Greek poet. He won the 1979 Nobel Prize for literature.

Elytis [ɛˈlaɪtɪs]
n
(Biographies / Elytis, Odysseus (1912-1996) M, Greek, WRITING: poet) Odysseus, real name Odysseus Alepoudelis. 1912-96, Greek poet, author of the long poems Axion Est (1959) and Maria Nefeli (1978): Nobel prize for literature 1979


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His biography written by Guy Wagner (or Gail Holst) provide interesting information about Mikis career in composing; from the Symphonic music to his co-operations with leading poets (like Odysseus Elytis, Pablo Neruda, Federico García Lorca, George Seferis and Yannis Ritsos) and from the world-known soundtracks of Zorba the Greek, "Z" and Serpico to the revolutionary, anti-Junta, songs of 1970s with Maria Farantouri and Antonis Kalogiannis.
We made folded boats of blue hard paper and put rolls of a photocopied poem by Odysseus Elytis, a famous Greek noble, in each blue boat.
The Copper Canyon list includes such poets as Olga Broumas, Hayden Carruth, Cyrus Cassells, Odysseas Elytis, Carolyn Kizer, Thomas McGrath, Cesare Pavese, Kenneth Rexroth, and Eleanor Wilner.
 
 
 
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