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    92 Acharnon Street: A Year in Athens

    By John Lucas

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    Greece has always had its admirers, though none seems to have cherished the Athenian tavernas, the murderous traffic and the jaded prostitutes, the petty bureaucratic tyrannies, the street noise and the heroic individualists with the irony and detachment of John Lucas. 92 Acharnon Street is a gritty portrait of a dirty city and a wayward country. Yet Lucas's love for the realities of Greece triumphs -for the Homeric kindness of her people towards strangers, for the pleasures of her tavernas and for the proximity of islands in clear blue water as a refuge from the noise and pollution of her capital city. This is Greece as the Greeks would recognise it, seen through the eyes of a poet.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEland Publishing
    Release dateDec 1, 2012
    ISBN9781780600178
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    • 4/5
      This is a superb book giving what appears to me to be a 'real' picture of Athens in the 1980s after the fall of the junta. His descriptions are excellent and vocabulary extending as I guess one would expect from a poet: rugose, temblor.The poetry which began each chapter was also very accessible e.g. Gathering on p.208.His coverage of the island of Aegina and of the ruined city of Messene were both inspiring.
    • 2/5
      interesting read about a visiting professor and poet's stay in Athens and occasional travels to islands in Greece. im planning a trip to Greece and the book did show me sone directions and things that might be of interest.