Epiphanies
a contemporary odyssey Updated August 2008
a work in progress
by Christopher George Kypreos
Epiphanies is a verse novel, depicting the fictionalised life journey
of a man born in New York City on the eve of the Second World War.
The events date from that time to the present. In this book, C.G. Kypreos,
a London-based American poet, has woven a number of epiphanic moments
into a contemporary odyssey.
He works in the continuum between prose and poetry, blurring the
boundary between the two. The style is often conversational, exploiting
the pace and cadences of ordinary speech. One can also hear a melding of
the English and American languages.
His travels take him from the East Bronx, to Montana, to a campus
of lotus-eaters in upstate New York. Wandering through most of Europe,
he settles in Fifties Paris for almost a decade, moving back to New York
in the early Sixties, then to London, in full swing, a few years later, where
he has lived ever since.
More than anything else, this book is an epic of passion. It is often
intimate, frankly sexual, and always deeply felt. Kypreos also relates his
encounters with a number of exceptional men and women. Along the way, he
discovers that society has a keen interest in perpetuating both its demons
and its victims.
Epiphanies is the world's first original 21st century epic.
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed
in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living
or dead, events or localities, is entirely coincidental.
C.G. Kypreos is hereby identified as the author of this work in accordance with section
77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: C.G. Kypreos was born in New York, where
he spent his childhood in the Bronx during WW2, was educated at Music and
Art High School in Manhattan and at Bard College, lived in Paris in the late
50's and early 60's, originated and wrote the Happenings column for Penthouse
magazine, conducted a landmark interview with Allen Ginsberg published by
Odyssey Press, was publisher of Running Man, (a maverick literary and political
magazine), presented Poets in Performance at the ICA.
He has contributed poetry to magazines on both sides of the Atlantic,
(Bananas, Acumen, Interpreter's House, Iota, Poetry Nottingham, Monkey Kettle, Global
Tapestry Journal, Clark Street Review, etc.), read his poetry at many venues in and
around London, including the Poetry Cafe and the ICA, as well as on BBC national
and local radio, (The Today programme, BBC Radio London, LBC's Stop Look and
Listen), and has most recently appeared on Word for Word on the BBC's London
Live, as publisher successfully defended Paul Ableman's book The Mouth in a
two-week Old Bailey Obscenity trial, wrote an account of LSD psychotherapy
with R.D. Laing and a collection of poems called Beethoven Through An Ocarina,
wrote and produced a musical entitled Barricade, and has since worked in the music
business.
For Christine
To contact Mr Kypreos phone +44 (0) 790 644 7201 or email cgkypreos@hotmail.com
I trusted to a voice
Saul Bellow
Copyright (c) 2007 C.G. Kypreos