Yannis Livadas

Yannis Livadas is a contemporary Greek poet, born in 1969. He is also an editor; independent scholar (of the American postmodern literature and the classical poetry of the Far East) essayist and translator. His poems have as well been published in Greek, American, French, Indian (Bangla), Croatian, Irish, Spanish and Serbian poetry magazines. He lives in Paris, France.

Bibliography

Poetry

  • Au comptoir de La Manne au 90 rue Claude-Bernard (Édition privée Paris 2014)
  • Sound Bones / 17 poems of jazz (Iolkos Publications 2014)
  • At the bookstand of La Manne, 90 Claude Bernard street (Private edition Paris 2013)
  • La Chope Daguerre + Husk Poems (Kedros Publications 2013)
  • Bezumljie (Peti Talas, Serbia 2012)
  • Ravaged By The Hand Of Beauty (Cold Turkey Press, France 2012)
  • Kelifus (Cold Turkey Press, France 2011)
  • Ati - Scattered Poems 2001-2009 (Kedros Publications 2011)
  • The Margins Of A Central Man (Graffiti Kolkata, India 2010)
  • The Star Electric Space/An International Anthology Of Indie Writers [is included with 4 poems] (Graffiti Kolkata, India 2010)
  • 40a (Athens 2009)
  • John Coltrane & 15 Poems for Jazz (San Francisco, C.C. Marimbo 2008)
  • Apteral Nike/Business/Sphinx (Athens, Heridanos 2008)
  • John Coltrane and 12 Poems for Jazz (Athens, Apopeira 2007)
  • The Hanging Verses Of Babylon (Athens, Melani 2007)
  • November in the World (Athens, Akron 2005)
  • Annex of Temperate Emotion (Athens, Indiktos 2003)
  • Receipt of Retail Poetry (Athens, Akron 2002)
  • Expressionistic Feedback (Athens, Akron 2000)

Prose

  • Dans le ventre des femmes – Anthologie (BSC Publishing, Paris, France, 2012)
  • The Laocoon Complex (Logeion Books, 2012)

Jazz

'Round About Jazz (Lulu.com, France 2012)

Translations

Haikus, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Lamantia, Charles Olson, Gregory Corso, Jack Hirschman, Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, Ezra Pound, Basil Bunting, Harold Norse, Wang Wei, Santoka Taneda, Ann Charters, Anthology of Japanese Poetry, Anthology of Beat Poetry, Anthology of Chinese Poetry, Jack Kerouac, W. C. Williams, e. e. cummings, Anthology of American Poetry of the 20th Century, Charles Bukowski, John Berryman, A study on the Beat Generation, Helen Weaver, Gertrude Stein, Mina Loy, Samuel Greenberg, George Oppen, Paul Βowles, Josephine Miles, Hilda Morley, Weldon Kees, Philip Larkin, Philip Whalen, Bob Kaufman, Kenneth Κoch, Donald Justice, Sinclair Beiles, Ted Berrigan, Mark Strand, Robert Mezey, Russell Edson, Paul Blackburn, Kathleen Frazer, Diane Wakoski, Billy Collins, William Mathews, Al Masarik, Leslie Scalapino, David Kirby, Al Zolynas, Bob Perelman, George Evans, August Kleinzahler, John Yau, Carl sandburg, Wallace Stevens, John Weiners, Jack Michelin, Diane DiPrima, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen, Amiri Baraka, Ted Joans, Michael McClure, Robinson Jeffers, Maxwell Bodenheim, Charles Reznikoff, Hart Crane, Countee Cullen, Luis Zukofsky, Peter Orlovsky, Kenneth Rexroth, George Oppen, Theodore Roethke, Delmore Swartz, Kenneth Patchen, William Everson, Brion Gysin, Sylvia Plath, Elaine Equi, Nicanor Parra, Dylan Thomas, Miroslav Holub, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, John Fles, Antoine-Roger Bolamba, Sitakant Mahapatra, Kenneth Rexroth, Theodore Roethke, George Oppen, Charles Olson, Kenneth Patchen, Delmore Swartz, John Berryman, Brion Gysin, Robert Lowell, Barbara Guest, Denise Levertov, Louis Simpson, James Schuyler, Cid Corman, Frank O’ Hara, James Merrill, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Lamantia, John Ashbery, James Wright, Larry Eigner, Howard Hart, W. S. Merwin, Robert Creeley, Jonathan Williams, Gregory Corso, Sylvia Plath, Jack Hirschman, Peter Orlovsky, Amiri Baraka, Richard Brautigan, Charles Simic, George D. Slater, Charles Tomlinson, Ron Padgett, Michael Palmer, Andrei Codrescu, David Lehman, Barbara Guest, Ed Dorn, Joseph Ceravolo, David Gascoyne and many more.

Works as an editor

Carlos Edmundo de Ory (poems in greek), Poètes Maudits (an anthology in greek), Blaise Cendrars (poems in greek, Anthology of the american poetry of the 20th century (in greek), two volumes about Beat poetry (in greek), and other works of postmodern american literature.

Interviews