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Poet
Moudatsos with musicians
It could have
been 1957 in a smoke-filled Greenwich Village cellar coffee house with
bearded poet Allen Ginsberg, and his beat-generation friends
Jack
Kerouac and Peter
Orlovsky, reading passages from Howl to the beat of a bongo drum.
It could
have been . . . but it wasn’t..
Actually,
it was 50 years later…in a smoke-filled stone-walled Anopoli café with
bearded poet Kosti Moudatso, and his now-generation friends Vasiliki
Alexaki-Hronaki and Popi Lasithiotaki, reading passages from
The Prodigal Who Never Returned to the beat of the drum . . . and the rhythm of a lyra.
The déjà vu experience occurred in the
Aramnos Taverna as Mr.
Mouthatsos, noted poet and author, appeared at the Music and Poetry Night
sponsored by the Gournes Association “Development and Environment”.
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Accompanying
the readings were musical interpretations by Mihalis Xythakis on the lyra
and Minas Pegniotakis on the drum.
Mr. Moudatsos, who resides in
Iraklion, and his friends, also read from his other
book, The Bums in the Balkans.
Mrs. Alexaki-Hronaki, president of the association, said the evening was the
first in a series of cultural events to promote the spirituality of the
people of the township.
Mrs.
Alexaki-Hronaki
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