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The Greek poet and prose writer Manolis Xexakis was born in Rethymno, Crete, in 1948. Besides writing The Death of the Cavalry (1977, 1980), which includes the sequence Captain Super Priovolos, Xexakis has published three volumes of poetry (Mathematical Exercises, 1980; Erotic Shipways, 1980; Mirrors of Melancholy Speech, 1987) and two other books of poetic prose (Where the Cuckoo? Where the Wind?, 1987; Sonata for a String of Worry Beads, 2000). His collected poems (Poiimata 1972-2006) were issued by the publisher Synchronoi Orizontes in 2008. He has worked as a mathematics teacher and a journalist, as well as in advertising.
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