Agapi & Other Kinds of Love, is poet & rapper Luka Lesson\'s verse novel inspired by Plato\'s Symposium.
Luka\'s work has also been featured in publications.
Luka has released two collections of poetry independently: The Future Ancients (2013) & Antidote (2015) and two poetic rap albums: Please Resist Me (2012) & EXIT (2014).
Luka has featured at the mecca for slam poetry: the Nuyorican Poet\'s Cafe (NYC), performed with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and toured with respected UK rappers Akala & Lowkey.
His work crosses between the history of his family homeland, the fiercely political and the vulnerably self-reflective.
About the Author: Luka Lesson is a poet, rapper and educator of Greek heritage.
In 2022 the live show of Agapi & Other Kinds of Love, premiered at the National Museum of Australia during their exhibition Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors & Heroes.
Anonymous Review Agapi & Other Kinds of Love is a project from Luka Lesson, taking the form this book, a studio album and a live show.
I especially loved the notes that Chaos adds on at the end, bringing additional insight and humor.
I enjoyed watching the two sets of lovers experience the forms of Love and realize the impact that their Love can have.
With an excellent rhythm and natural flow, the story expertly weaves the stories together through time.
I salute his prophetic witness Dr Cornel West Agapi & Other Kinds of Love is a romance throughout space and time told in rolling verse.
Luka never fails to delight in this vibrant and beautiful dive into Love Omar Sakr
Luka is a genuine artist of high quality whose poetry is powerful and poignant.
Equal parts rap novella and classical history lesson, Agapi & Other Kinds of Love shows us how Love prevails despite the trials and tribulations of the ages.
Self-love, erotic love, the Love of the stranger, familial Love and more, all collide with marble statues of Aphrodite, protestor\'s chants and the Parthenon\'s steps.
The lovers, both modern and ancient, then encounter the 7 Kinds of love: Eros, Storgy, Filoxenia, Philautia, Filia, Pragma and the ultimate: Agapi.
The gods then take the reader on a journey - collapsing time to arrive in modern day Athens, where two reincarnations of the ancient lovers fall in Love (again) in the midst of a riot, beneath the shadows of the Acropolis.
Socrates is telling a banquet of friends everything he learned from a mysterious lover named Diotima.
Agapi & Other Kinds of Love, is poet & rapper Luka Lesson\'s verse novel inspired by Plato\'s Symposium
