Absurd Athlete by Yannis Kondos Jonathan Reeder midnight feeds

midnight feeds

but take the same sharp-focused eye to other places

among other things

Here they are exposed

as well as through industrial landscapes and urban spaces

Absurd Athlete by Yannis Kondos Jonathan Reeder midnight feedsShortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation (September 2005) The 'absurd athlete' is contemporary man running. Running with a headwind. He skirts mountains, lakes cities. Difficulties one after the other. Fires, wars, grumbling, families. [] And he runs and runs, while his fellow athletes have finished and carried off the prizes and acclaim. Alone, he runs time's cycle. [] he smiles and thinks of escaping, of