Bodin's first collection of poems in Greek combines two of his most successful books of poetry with edition lulu - "Lorely" (2014, Englisch) and "Reiss doch die Tür nicht so" (2015, German) - and excerpts from a recent project "Cypriot Memories" (English). The book is illustrated by the author. The translator summarizes in her afterword: "Uwe's poetic vision is of a democratic world of transcendence where universal values combat exclusions, divisions and violence: a Civitas Dei in earthly, secular terms where a renewed being-in-the world, itself inexorably immersed in a dramatic stage of a vale of tears where misfortune and loss are inevitable, will at least minimize cruelty."(p.76) She underlines: "Therefore, Uwe's poetry is not just an existential, ontological or even religious commentary on human drama. It is also, and deep down, a political poetry of heightened awareness of old and new plagues of humanity that invite thoughtful individual and global change. In Uwe's vision, however, universalism of cosmopolitan values is not a Eurocentric abstract imperative. The values in question are not an exclusive prerogative of western cultures. They are the crossroads where all cultures meet one another halfway. His cosmopolitanism is an ideal of interconnectivity embodied and incarnated also by himself as his influence worldwide and his advancement of values that are embraced by people worldwide show."
