My dreams are filled with apples and dogs. Always something that can be bitten, something that remains silent. If zero signifies absence and one signifies presence, then the poet of the book operates as an intermediary for all values. The chances of a similar work being reborn are minimal.
A work that was born from the voluntary stay of the poet for six months as a resident in the Psychiatric Hostel of Chios, as part of his two-year research project, Chiography. Poetry rarely has at its disposal such vivid documents of identity, born within extreme environments.
Here, Evangelos Evangelou's narrative acquires a tail and barks syllabically. The author, without a trace of philanthropic posturing or romantic delusion, does not merely observe the "mad". He inhabits them. Empathy becomes a method.
The poetic self-ethnography "the dogs bark syllabically" is not just a collection of poems; it is a hybrid proposition of literature, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychiatric observation, and existential daring. A writing that does not pretend because life has preceded it. And life, in this case, is not a figure of speech but an extended dive into the crack.
Within the pages of the book, the reader encounters not pathology but sensitivity. They are not called to feel pity but to understand. Evangelou's "dogs" invite us to reflect on how little the intensity of a human tremor is from the explosion of a supernova star.
And at the end of the book, you are no longer the same reader. You confused the useless with the unobstructed. You said: "What a useless sky it is today." or "Don't try to forget me, it is unobstructed".
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