AORTIC RUPTURES

Behind every number, there is a human being. Behind every image, a story. Behind every silence, a voice waiting to be heard. War, memory, loss, technology, climate change and the fragile boundaries of human existence, become images through which the 95 poems of the collection explore a world that seems to have grown accustomed to destruction.

“Aortic Ruptures” become a metaphor for the deep wounds of our time - wounds in history, democracy, nature, memory and within ourselves. Drawing upon history, mythology, art and the realities of the present, “Aortic Ruptures” move between darkness and light, between memory and oblivion, between destruction and the fragile hope of renewal. At its core, the collection is a call to remember but also to “Resist forever”. Because sometimes, even through a rupture, light finds its way in..

Vasiliki Dragouni