Opera Bufa

"Absurd, insightful, comic and profound the poems of Opera Bufa combine eroticism and spirituality, responsibility and the acknowledgement of the human condition, as if Aristophanes and Seferis sat down to collaborate on a grand work together."
- Richard Olafson

Praise

Sex. Death. God. In a poetic celebration of the absurd, we travel through lands of juniper and hibiscus, olive grove and partridge. We're swept along by a fast-moving stream of creation hoping to make sense of it all, until we realize that's exactly the point. Opera Bufa doesn't aim to make sense. Manolis writes like a Greek Jack Kerouac, taking us on the road with Sisyphus and Odysseus, displaying a hot-blooded irreverence for rhyme or reason, and a love for the lush power of words.

– Angela Long