Article 2

Demosthenes Agrafiotis


letter

what letter
            leads to the white
what letter
            denies the color
what letter
            poses the problem
what letter
            exercises moderation
what letter
            traverses poetry
what letter
            betrays the language
what letter
            fits the prophesy 
what letter
            locks-up the place of divination
what letter
            facilitates the dissolution
what letter
            implies power
what letter
            entrenches the occasion
what letter
            drives the correlations 
what letter
            collapses before the question
what letter
            shuts the mouth
what letter
            heals through writing
what letter
            provokes the invisible
what letter
            assists gods and semi-gods
what letter
            still insists for reciprocity
what letter
            goes “poof” and “gaah”
what letter
            recognizes the nightingales of Delphi
what letter
            misses the landscapes and the sunshine
what letter
            stays afloat with nothing
what letter
            declares internationalism a farce
what letter
            does the hand-sign
what letter
            imposes a noon siesta
what letter
            makes flatlands unbearable
what letter
            is responsible for the failure of the poem
what letter
            is suitable for sucking up to authority
what letter
            leads to grooming the mustache
what letter
            accommodates blinding
what letter
            cultivates exclusion
what letter
            specifies difference
what letter
            is responsible for rhyming
what letter
            goes well with sour faces
what letter
            keeps the rhythm
what letter
            relieves boundaries from their boundaries
what letter
            gives in to cleanliness
what letter
            promotes the illusion of sufficiency
what letter
            cements a friendship
what letter
            is becoming to the absence of sadness
what letter
            prevents the promotion of the poet
what letter
            brings back calmness to the other sea
what letter
            conjugates betrayal
what letter
            does not turn into fireworks
what letter
            renders poetic justice
what letter
            avoids airports
what letter
            refuses to become an allusion
what letter
            spews out all identifications
what letter
            is confused with its usage
what letter
            prepares its escape to meaning
what letter
            prostitutes its combinations
what letter
            gets mixed up with references
what letter
            is charged for the value of its use
what letter

                        (Delphi, 03/21/2001
                        Lisbon, 06/21-25/2001
                        Rome, 06/26/2001)

Translated from the Greek by Angelos Sakkis.




Demosthenes Agrafiotis is active in the fields of poetry/painting/photography/intermedia/ installations and their interactions, with books of poetry and essays, and exhibitions of photography, paintings, drawings and installations, in both Greece and abroad. He has a special interest for the relations between art and new technologies, for multimedia or intermedia projects and also for performances.

His essays are dedicated to analysis of different forms of art as cultural phenomenon. He has participated in different type of artistic activities: publications, small press initiatives and mail - art / alternative - action art projects.

His anthology-formatted magazine ‘Clinamen’ (1980-90), co-published by Erato Publications in Athens (1991-94), has been active for over a decade as an amalgam of Greek poetry and art with work from Europe, Asia and America. 7 artists books were published based on 'Clinamen' (1980-1995). After 1996, ‘Clinamen’ is centered on production of artists books (18). 'Clinamen' on the web (2001-).

www.dagrafiotis.com
www.crisiology.org
www.lensculture.com/demosthenes-agrafiotis
 
 
previous page&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp contents&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp next page