Blue Scarab Press of IDEAlab Editions
invites you to a book presentation of poetry
Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology
by
Ginger F. Zaimis
Foreword by Paolo Colombo and Introduction by Alicia E. Stallings
and reading of the play entitled
Prometheus Rebound
voices by
Orfeas Apergis, Paolo Colombo, G.F. Zaimis, Eliza Jackson & A.E. Stallings
Monday, February 8, 2016 @ 7:00 p.m.
The Athens Centre
located at
48 Archimidou Street
[click map]
A reception will follow.
In Praise of...
"Each word is sculpted into perfect form as architecture itself to fit the necessity of language in [Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology]…The ability to abstract events, leaving the awareness of pain and joy is layered with multiple meaning. The sonnets are experienced as pages of diptychs that converge into triptychs, her new visual and literary, poetic hybrid, shaping abstraction into form, aether to volume, idea from void."
Paolo Colombo
Writer, ISTANBUL Modern Art Adviser & former Curator, MAXXI
"Ginger Zaimis sometimes sounds like Heraclitus – fragmentary, abrupt, vatic and witty. Verses from [Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology] resonate with breathtaking peremptory wisdom...Remarkable!"
Rachel Hadas
Poet, Classicist, Professor, Essayist & Translator
"I am in awe of Ginger Zaimis' knowledge of history and mythology in [Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology], her skill and creativity with form. I love the way she weaves the current with the ancient, the high with the low...so wittily, so gracefully.
Elizabeth J. Coleman
Poet, Translator & Vice President of the Poetry Society of America
"Ginger navigates the world and her life with grace, elegance...Her poetic voice is fresh and unexpected: tough, tender, funny, fierce, risky and sometimes risqué. Her poetry expresses intersections of the ancient and modern world, mixing high-register diction with a vernacular of Southern sassiness."
A.E. Stallings
Poet, Translator & Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
About the author...
G.F. Zaimis is an American essayist, poet and photographer who specializes in architectural forms. Her writing explores the intersections of contemporary modernisms, comparative literature and philosophy to connect multi-disciplinary dialogues with language, mythology, history and quantum theory while uniting the arts and sciences. She is the Arts and Literary Chair for the International Friends of Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Greece), The Library of Alexandria. Her work has been presented at centers for contemporary art, biennials and museums as well as her poetic perspectives endorsed by The National Book Critics Circle. She is the author of Excavated Athens to Alexandria, the architect of the poetic forms, the Portico Convention and the new literary Triptych, as well as the co-author of Philosophy and Poetry. Follow her on Twitter & Instagram @gfzaimis
