Verses of 'Bamba Lappas

Adamantios Ch. Lappas belongs to the sizeable choir of born poets. Although self-taught, he left behind a significant oeuvre that is included in his notebooks which his great-grandson, the distinguished Professor of Medicine Charalambos Moutsopoulos, has worked on with touching devotion. For the present publication, Moutsopoulos has made a personal selection from the extensive and diverse material of the poetic output, which reveals 'a restless spirit, a volcanic personality, inventive sensitivity, an inexhaustible satirical vein and an impassioned love of his country and its people', as Professor Michalis Z. Kopidakis notes in his introduction. Adamantios Ch. Lappas's compositions reveal his versatility as a versifier, his linguistic wealth and his deep knowledge through lived experience of Epirot tradition. Diffuse throughout the metrical narrative are the humorous disposition, the double-entendres, the scathing connotations, which impress and amuse readers of all ages.