Polidoúri, Maria

Polidoúri, Maria

▪ Greek poet
Polidoúri also spelled  Polydoúre  
born 1905, Kalámai, Greece
died 1930, Athens

      Greek poet known for her impassioned, eloquent farewell to life.

      Polidoúri was orphaned as a small child, and in 1921 she went to Athens to study law. There she began a friendship with another poet, Kóstas Kariotákis. In 1926 she went to Paris, returning two years later, fatally ill. In 1930 she entered a sanatorium near Athens, where she died.

      Her two books of poems reflect her awareness of impending death. The tone alternates between bitter questioning and a cold resignation in which she seems to contemplate her own pain from outside herself.

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