Ginger F. Zaimis

In Praise of "Prometheus Rebound and Other Mythology"

 

"Ginger Zaimis sometimes sounds like Heraclitus – fragmentary, abrupt, vatic and witty. Verses from resonate with breathtaking peremptory wisdom...Remarkable!"

 

Rachel Hadas

Poet, Classicist, Professor, Essayist & Translator

 

 

"Each word is sculpted into perfect form as architecture itself to fit the necessity of language…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

 

 

"I am in awe of Ginger Zaimis' knowledge of history and 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

 

 

 

About the author...

Ginger F. Zaimis is an American poet, polymath, essayist, adviser and serial creative who specializes in architectural forms. She writes, advises and lectures on the intersections of contemporary modernisms and comparative literature connecting multi-disciplinary dialogues with language, mythology, philosophy, history and theology while uniting the arts and sciences. Her debut collection, Excavated Athens to Alexandria, was a finalist for PEN America's Osterwiel Poetry Prize 2014, as well as her grammatology published by the Athens Academy, Research Centre for Greek Philosophy and poetic perspectives endorsed by The National Book Critics Circle.

 

She is the author of three collections of poetry, the architect of the Portico and the literary Triptych, two new poetic forms and the co-author of Philosophy and Poetry. Follow her on Twitter/Instagram @gfzaimis