Rendition is a "provocative collection"

Mar 19, 2010 – Peace Arch News

By Alex Browne

You sit on the marble steps
staring as the pigeons fly
at you like in sacred formation
as if someone orders them to
pattern like a crescent
moon or a fresh
oval bread loaf
and you toss a few crumbs
hoping that they stop
and come like new hopes
or as omen for fortune
your father said birds landing
on your shoulder taking food
from your hand foretells long life
and happiness

Rendition, the latest collection of poetry by Manolis Aligizakis, joins other tomes by this prolific Greek-Canadian poet and novelist (in 2009 alone, he published two collections: Impulses and Nuances). It's obviously an advantage to be the owner of your own publishing house – Libros Libertad, which turns out a stunningly regular series of releases by authors both local and more far afield, is the South Surrey-based brainchild of Aligizakis. But he has no reason to apologize for the quality of his work. His strongly imagistic, and sometimes deceptively simple, style is based on deep and profound musings on the human condition, amid a symbolic context of nature. Rendition is a provocative collection for lovers of poetry that joins Manolis' other work in providing both quiet pleasures and unexpected epiphanies.

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