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The Blue Liqueur: Poems by Choice 1989-2022
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In bad times, hostile to humans and nature, barren and dystopian, the speech - a prey to temporariness and cheapness in the stock market of values, rationalized and stripped of inmost impulses and feelings, suffocates under the brutality and banality of the daily transaction, unable to be spiritually committed and eager to take its role of the transformation of reality.
The present anthology, a philosophical poetry par excellence, synthesizing lyricism and irrationality with cerebral speech and sentiment, includes 57 poems, first published in Greek, by IANOS Editions (2023). Using poetry as a means of escape from the dullness and wildness of everyday reality, that is often manifested itself "without beautiful movements of the soul", without road signs and "lighthouses in the night", Joannis N. Markopoulos aims at the transformation of reality, not to a virtual but to a fantastic worth experiencing world.
ISBN : 978-1-83543-934-0
Published: 09/04/2026
Pages : 70
Size : 205x140
Imprint : Olympia Publishers
Joannis N. Markopoulos
Joannis N. Markopoulos, born 1948 in Thessaloniki, Greece, is, since the academic year 2020/2021, Professor in Technology and in Philosophy of Technoscience at the Postgraduate Interdepartmental Course on "Philosophical, Pedagogical and Interdepartmental Anthropology", at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.). He is a former Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, A.U.Th., and a former Professor in Philosophy and Ethics of Science and Technology at the Faculty of Education, A.U.Th. Aside from scientific publications, he has written more than 230 articles in the Greek daily and weekly press. Personal site with a short CV in English: https://people.auth.gr/imarkopo
