IN A LIBRARY I FOUND THE STORY OF A MAN: -

FINDING THE STORY OF A MAN

In 1999, and while having the luxury of free time, I decided to look for texts that would motivate me to compose music.

Christian Youth library is one of the few public libraries in Thessaloniki.

There, inside a narrow drawer, a small book under the title Μύθοι (Fables) written by someone named Robert Lax, attracted my curiosity.

At that time this awkward vision came to me:

One stands alone at a small beach, away from any kind of civilization, inside the absolute darkness.

One can only hear the sounds of the calm sea, one's heart, one's breath, one's watch.

One writes a poem and places it in a bottle. This bottle ends in a library. Thousands, millions of such bottles fill the libraries.

I, now, stand in front of these bottles and pick one.

And there it is:

In A Library I Found The Story Of A Man

Kostas Beveratos, 2009

> All rights for the poetry of Robert Lax on this blog belong to Marcia Kelly and the Robert Lax Estate

> All rights for the music on this blog belong to Konstantinos S. Beveratos and the participating artists

> All rights for the translation to greek language of the poems presented on this blog, belong to Moschos Lagouvardos

> Poems on this blog have been published by:

Grove Press, 1996, New York USA

"Love Had A Compass"

ISBN 0-8021-1587-X

and:

Pendo Verlag, 1983, Zurich SZ

"Fables - Fabeln"

ISBN 978-3-85842-074-9