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Stavroula

Even Stronger..now and then

About Me

www.poetrybystavroulagatsou.blogspot.com
"The relationship between eroticism and poetry is such that it can be said, without affectation, that the former is poetry of the body and the latter an erotism of the language. They are in complementary opposition. Language – sound that carries meanings, a material trace that denotes nonmaterial things- is able to give a name to what is most fleeting and evanescent: sensation. Nor is erotism animal sexuality; it is ceremony, representation. Imagination turns sex into ceremony and rite, language into rhythm and metaphor. The poetic image is an embrace of opposite realities, and rhythm a copulation of sounds; poetry eroticizes language and the world, because its operation is erotic to begin with."
The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism Octavio Paz

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My Interests

Modern Art. Installations, photography and painting. Sculpture, Poetry, Explore human expression and behaviour. Meeting open-minded people,Tate Museum, Beaubourg.

I'd like to meet:

Cross art "friendly" artists, photographers, musicians, painters, slammers, dj's, events organizers... People who would like to promote and are interesting in multicultural artistic projects.

Music:

Wim Mertens, Craig Armstrong, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Jacky Terasson, Cole Porter, Manos Hatzidakis, Rickie Lee Jones, Eleni Paspala, Madredeus, Bjork, David Bowie, Army of Lovers, Cerrone, Bob Sinclair,Abba, Modgo, Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Get Back Loretta, Mariza, Autour de Lucie, Radiohead, Barbara, Puressence, Placebo, Archive, Tindersticks, Damien Rice, Antony & The Johnsons, Scott Walker. OST: Il Postino, 2046, Grand Bleu, Gadgo Dilo, The Hours, Priscilla the desert queen.

Movies:

Asian cinema for its beauty and harmonic perception and european cinema for its freedom of expression. In general, great performances in every moovie touch me a lot. Almodovar, Lars von Trier, Kim Ki-Deok, Greenaway. Gadgo Dilo, 2046, The Hours, Bertolluci's "Stealing Beauty" (but not the way it ends), In the Mood for Love, Finding Nemo, Walk the Line, Das Experiment, Shark Tale, Les triplettes de belleville, Magnolia, Dogville, The Return, Moulin Rouge, Waking Life, 21 grams, The piano teacher, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover,Seven intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest, Angels in America, Hawaii,Oslo, Priscilla the desert queen, L'age des tenebres,The science of sleep, Gattaca, Ally Mc Beal Seasons.

Television:

Selected Truths Only.

Books:

Fernando Pessoa, Yiorgos Seferis,Kwnstantinos P. Kavafis,Kwstis Palamas, Arthur Rimbaud,Odysseas Elytis, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel García Márquez,Andreas Empeirikos, Andreas Kalvos, Rainer Maria Rilke, Vicente Aleixandre, Yannis Ritsos, Ezra Pound, Napoleon Lapathiwtis, Rufitus, Theodore Zeldin, Paul Verlaine, Nikos Kazantzakis, Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, Octavio Paz."Poemes du vent"- Adonis, "Letters to a Young Poet" Rilke - "Symposium" - Platon - "Women who run with the wolves" Estes

Heroes:

People who do not underestimate human nature.

My Blog

MOVIMIENTO/MOTION EN/SP - Octavio PAZ

Motion If you are the amber mare                I am the road of blood If you are the first snow      &nb...
Posted by Stavroula on Sun, 04 May 2008 04:48:00 PST

Kali Anastasi - Orthodox Easter EN

"This week (21-27of April 2008 ) is the so called Megali Evdomada, Great Week, which is Easter Week for all Greek Orthodox people. Anyone that has spent this week in Greece will have noticed that it i...
Posted by Stavroula on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:07:00 PST

Thank You Note to artists - Michael Corbin

..TR> Dear Artists, I truly wish that I could talk with all of you individually, but unfortunately, that's humanly impossible. So, here are some words that I've been wanting to say. Because of yo...
Posted by Stavroula on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:08:00 PST

Songs of myself - Walt Whitman EN

1 I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.   Walt Whitman - "Songs of myself"     "Song of Myse...
Posted by Stavroula on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:30:00 PST

Elegies of Colour : Women & Poetry in Greece- S. Gatsou

"COLOUR STORIES" GROUP EXHIBITION in ArtBase Gallery - Brussels GREEK WOMEN VISUAL ARTISTS     Stories of Colours. A dialogue between women and art ArtBase Gallery & Lyceum of Greek Wom...
Posted by Stavroula on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:54:00 PST

The Sound of Silence by Engonopoulos EN

THE CLAVICEMBALOS OF SILENCE &all is very silent, and silence is goodonly when it contains within it joy. Oth-erwise, it frightens me&LH the spermof werewolvestiresthe helmof the horizoncastslit fl...
Posted by Stavroula on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:31:00 PST

Hymns to the Night - Novalis

Hymns to the Night - Novalis 2. " Once when I was shedding bitter tears, when, dissolved in pain, my hope was melting away, and I stood alone by the barren mound which in its narrow dark bosom hid the...
Posted by Stavroula on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:35:00 PST

Ti st’alitheia einai i ellada (GR)


Posted by Stavroula on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:09:00 PST

"Colour Stories" Group Exhibition in ArtBase - Brussels

"Colour Stories" - Greek Women Visual Artists  Opening 28 February 6:30 pm - ArtBase Gallery, Brussels Ismini Bonatsou, Natassa Poulantza, Adonia Vakondios, Maria Chatzilampou and Katerina Rouka ...
Posted by Stavroula on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:12:00 PST

Diaspora; dispersed and united (Museum Quai de Branly- Paris)

"Diaspora" - Museum of Quai de Branly - Paris"Diaspora - Contemporary art installations based on an original idea by Claire Denis, film maker. - October 2nd 2007  January 6th 2008 Based on an origina...
Posted by Stavroula on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:57:00 PST