"Aortic Ruptures":

A poetic journey between rupture and light

 

“Aortic Ruptures” is an experience of tension and contradiction: pain and beauty, destruction and anticipation, endings and beginnings. Here, the reader does not remain at a distance. They become part of the narrative, a participant in an experience that tests the limits of endurance, memory and hope.

Within the pages of this collection, war is not merely an event. It becomes a state of being. It moves through the body and through memory, expanding from the individual to the collective, from a private wound into a history that refuses to stop repeating itself. Shadows and ashes, blood and remembrance create a landscape that is at once fragile and harsh, where light and darkness exist side by side, constantly shifting and inhabiting the same reality.

Yet every poem becomes a rupture through which another world can be glimpsed: a world collapsing and, at the same time, stubbornly insisting on its right to exist.

“Aortic Ruptures” live in the space between opposites: where pain meets beauty, where destruction gives way to creation, where endings carry the possibility of beginnings. Each rupture becomes a pulse, each silence a breath - a quiet, subterranean insistence that life persists and that even the most fragile light can endure.

 

Vasiliki Dragouni