Before Lyricism by Eleni Vakalo, trans. by Karen Emmerich Josep Lluís Aguiló these are poems that pay

these are poems that pay tribute to all the places that house the stories we treasure

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With his first several books

Before Lyricism by Eleni Vakalo, trans. by Karen Emmerich Josep Lluís Aguiló these are poems that payBefore Lyricism includes six book length poems: "The Forest" (1954), "Plant Upbringing" (1956), "Diary of Age" (1958), "Description of the Body" (1959), "The Meaning of the Blind" (1962), and "Our Way of Being in Danger" (1966). Each of these, apart from Plant Upbringing, was published as a separate book, which Vakalo herself designed. (Plant Upbringing was originally included in the volume Wall Painting, of which Vakalo later repudiated all but this