Books by Eleni Kefala

"In this bilingual collection of linked poems, Kefala creates a tapestry of motifs that transcend time and identity across early twentieth-century Cyprus, sixteenth-century Scotland, and more. As the threads of each poem draw together, it is as if the protagonist, in his travels through the twentieth century, encounters the likes of Odysseus, Cervantes, Columbus, and Rembrandt, all moving in multidimensional synchronicity. By gathering these threads, readers participate in the production of meaning, stitching together their own reading of the story. The collection's fluid treatment of time makes a masterful declaration about the function of poetry: perhaps history is nothing more than the presence of innumerable human voices, some more and some less powerful, coexisting in an eternal present"--

By 1920, Buenos Aires was the largest and most cosmopolitan city of Latin America due to mass immigration from Europe.

The Conquered probes issues of collective memory and cultural trauma in three sorrowful poems composed soon after the conquest of Constantinople and Tenochtitlán. These texts describe the fall of an empire as a fissure in the social fabric and an open wound on the body politic, and articulate, in a familiar language, the trauma of the conquered.