![]() At the reading, you mentioned visiting Skid Row in your poignant opening remarks. Plus, the human landscape of the book has been compared more than once to L.A.’s Skid Row population. With the People from the Bridge (2014) - the second volume of the trilogy - closes with a report by the LAPD, and it is inspired by an event that happened at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. This town has a special link to your work. TOTI O’BRIEN: On the occasion of your reading at Beyond Baroque, you had the chance to spend a couple of days in Los Angeles. The interview that follows was born of that informal exchange, which continued via email. As we sat on a staircase waiting for the event to begin, an interesting conversation was sparked. That is where I had the pleasure of meeting him. This past spring, Lyacos went on a US signing tour, culminating with a reading in Los Angeles at Beyond Baroque on May 30. In the fall of 2018, Shoestring Press finally released Shorsha Sullivan’s English translation of the complete trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() It inspired as well a number of musical compositions, choreographies, art, and performance work. During the course of this long gestation, the book was translated into 13 languages. DIMITRIS LYACOS’S TRILOGY, Poena Damni, is a complex and labyrinthine creation spread over three decades. ![]()
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