Review by the writer Mr Thanasis Frodistis on the poetry collection “Final Fourth” by Vasiliki Ergazaki, Megas Seirios Publications
“This poetry of Ergazaki, apart from any literary or philological value, is of great interest in an era of high speeds, because it urges us to make a pause and reflect on the search for our lost soul and especially our vision… the true life, which is lost in the negligence and carelessness, the rush of a moment. It’s a departure from the style of the past three collections. “Final Fourth” is a new path that Vasiliki Ergazaki seems to be carving in her poetry, following the footsteps of the thought of the late Poet-Philosopher and Master Dimitris Kakalidis.”
- Excerpt from the review by the writer Mr Thanasis Frodistis on the poetry collection “Final Fourth” by Vasiliki Ergazaki, Megas Seirios Publications.
We are very grateful to the excellent Mr Thanasis Frontistis, writer-member of the Society of Greek Writers, for his profound review on the poetry collection “I surrendered the signs of the days – Final Fourth” by V. Ergazaki.
We wish him the best of luck in his creative work!
Here is the full review:
POETRY COLLECTION “FINAL FOURTH” BY VASSILIKI ERGΑZAKI
A short critical assessment by THANASIS FRODISTIS
“Look, inside you/ sunspheres are constantly circling around” and so, I add, you can shout, “I have everything/ I am everything” and therefore, I add again, “Pledged to the service of the Universe I am”, finally adding “In the vortex of the gyrations/ I foresee perfection”.
I don’t know if I am exaggerating or underestimating this work, but I really believe that the above few lines could summarize the new poetry collection by Vasiliki Ergazaki who, leaving behind everything that weighs her down, exaggerating her poetic work so far, opens up to the “Universal World”. A journey of exploration, which leads her to “become inflamed with the roots of constellations, the canopies of the suns, become winged the galaxy’s Wind”. To try to experience the freedom and power of the Being, self-knowledge, surrendering the weaknesses of the human being to the past, to yesterday. By surrendering the signs-obstacles, the illusions of everyday life, the poetess seems to seek a flight, a liberation from what holds her in her known form by designing the unending poem that will take her to the womb of infinity, to the land of the joyfully shouting wind, to the amphorae of wisdom, to the roots of existence, to the height and depth of the entity. To move from within to the deepest inner world.
The Poetess seeks to disarm fear and unite with light. She seeks the sources of wind in a universe that evolves with the absolute rhythm of harmony. It is felt by the Poetess that she is “pledged to the service of the Universe”. She unwinds irredeemable circles and heads towards light, towards knowledge, listening to the Sun’s promptings to find the place where the still, the steady path of truth passes. And from there, to paint the infinite, with the sunspheres constantly rotating within it. Then she will be able to exclaim with confidence, “I have everything, I am everything”, since everything will call her to listen to the voice of her soul and prepare herself for a long journey, giving Spring the opportunity to plan this long journey through the vast field of existence, like a cell of the sun participating in the miracle of the earth which is moving globally and fiercely, learning in its luminous emergence.
A skilled artisan of the poetic language, the poet, with a special perception of colours, light and shapes, chooses the elements of nature systematically: Water, air, fire, animals, trees, flowers, earth, sun, rays, sky, to serve with as much precision as possible the slow and patient task of DISCOVERING and processing reality for the ride to the grandeur of the Universe.
Ergazaki’s poems are a correspondence with people – with herself before all others – with sounds, with images, with sensations. The poems are paintings she paints with lyrics and melodies, transcribed into poetic allegories.
With a rich, sensitive and flexible language, sharp enough to penetrate deep into things and to formulate her own interpretation of existence, of the Being, not in a microcosm, but in the big world of the Universe where “the Sun of suns” reigns.
This poetry of Ergazaki, apart from any literary or philological value, is of great interest in an era of high speeds, because it urges us to make a pause and reflect on the search for our lost soul and especially our vision… the true life, which is lost in the negligence and carelessness, the rush of a moment. It’s a departure from the style of the past three collections. “Final Fourth” is a new path that Vasiliki Ergazaki seems to be carving in her poetry, following the footsteps of the thought of the late Poet-Philosopher and Master Dimitris Kakalidis
May this great book of poetry be a good thing, a forerunner of other creations of a special poetess, Vasiliki Ergazaki.
Kifissia, 9/12/2021
