Name: Piercing Red: Collected Poems and Lyrics 1984–2008
Brand: Lena Platonos

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

9798985170405

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Colour

Discs

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format Books US

Paperback

Format detail

Limited edition

Release date

2022-05-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Revol­ver

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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1 / Extended format: No / Paperback / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Lena Platonos

Genre US

Poetry

Label US

Dark Entries

The poetry of groundbreaking Greek artist Lena Platonos takes center stage in <i>Piercing Red: Collected Poems and Lyrics 1984–2008</i>. Best known for her radical electronic music compositions, her innovative work as a poet has been underacknowledged, in no small part due to writing and singing in her native Greek. This book was put together to rectify this lapse, to help encounter her song lyrics on their own as literary work. 

Collected here are all the poems Platonos put to music over four decades, appearing for the first time in English thanks to loving translations by Stathis Gourgouris. Careful attention was paid to Platonos’s phrasing so that the unique voicings and surrealist imagery would come forth intact. With their rapid-fire juxtapositions and dreamlike narrations, these poems are gestural and performative evocations of the artist’s vast inner world. They are performances of her soul in the realm of words. Book design and typography by Eloise Leigh.

Piercing Red: Collected Poems and Lyrics 1984–2008

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