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    Vagary
    Vagary
    Vagary
    Ebook35 pages15 minutes

    Vagary

    By Eva Pirpinia

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    Vagary: an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion (Merriam-Webster)

    Vagary is my journey from teens to adulthood, an apology & explanation to the people around me. It is, fundamentally, a coming-of-age collection of poems.

    Growing up in Greece, the second half of my teens was marked by the beginning of a severe economic crisis that fundamentally changed the way I saw the world & myself. The poems are my thoughts and fears, my dreams and hopes, the journey from apathy to my personal political awakening.

    Before every section, there are prologues about what inspired me to write these poems and puts them in a context.

    Sample (1st poem):

    "I am the undelivered message. The voice muted. A world hidden behind words.

    Standing in the middle of the crowd, I’m slowly walking towards the stairs of the tube station. I can feel the tube swallowing me whole, as I swim in its arteries, squeezing my feelings next to a million other people’s feelings.

    I try to write a message on the announcement board of the station. I get shoved, and I lose my balance. I get up, embarrassed.
    No one noticed."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEva Pirpinia
    Release dateJul 24, 2015
    ISBN9781311598721
    Vagary
    Author

    Eva Pirpinia

    My name is Eva Pirpinia and I am 22 years old. I have been writing poetry since I was 11 years old. I am writing poetry in Greek and English and my favourite themes include urban loneliness, estrangement, isolation and nostalgia. I live in London and study towards an MA in Publishing.I have been a Poetbay.com member (http://www.poetbay.com/poetHome.php?writerId=3345) for more than 6 years and my poems have been frequently selected by the editor to appear in the homepage. I have had my poetry published in Ripple, the annual Kingston University literary anthology.I live and breathe poetry on www.ibreathepoetry.com and @ibreathepoetry (Twitter) where I focus on offering my readers fresh and unique perspectives, poetry news, inspiration and promotion opportunities.

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      Vagary - Eva Pirpinia

      Vagary

      Eva Pirpinia

      2015

      Vagary

      Eva Pirpinia

      Published by Eva Pirpinia on Smashwords

      Copyright 2015 Eva Pirpinia

      cover by Marie-Claire Grima

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Cities

      Urbanista

      King's Day

      The ecstatic experience

      Carried Away

      Mancanza

      Have you seen the lights?

      The odd one out

      Please wait here until you're useful

      Fil

      Scars

      A butterfly over my head

      Femina

      High heels

      Wither

      Words

      Thoughts on words

      The destiny of words

      A tribute to Maya Angelou

      Anger

      The Pills

      Shot!

      Foreword

      When I was eleven, my favourite pastime was reading poetry. I started reading poetry with one of the most famous and loved Greek poets, Odysseas Elytis. He wrote in rhyme, and back then, my perception of poetry was that it was text that rhymed. Very limited, yet a good start.

      It was a beautiful poem about the Pleiades that made me realise how fascinated I was by words and the sound they make when spoken inside my head. I started writing rhymed poems about nature, love and the sea. All these themes are very familiar to Greek people; Odysseas Elytis has published anthologies of poems

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