Eucharist: Dimitris Lyacos's WITH THE PEOPLE FROM THE BRIDGE

Dimitris Lyacos’s long, tripartite poem, Poena Damni, is one of the most important and challenging literary works to come from Greece in the past generation. (...) “With the People from the Bridge” is not the poem of a Christian apologist, but of an agnostic thoroughly penetrated by Christian tradition in its deepest sense, and to the folklore—pagan as well as Christian—that has formed around it as part of its historical substance. Whether or not we can or will be saved in any eschatological sense is left unresolved.