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Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected & Last Poems » (1 ED)

Authors: Odysseas Elytis, Olga Broumas
ISBN-13: 9781556590832, ISBN-10: 1556590830
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Date Published: February 1997
Edition: 1 ED

A comprehensive collection of poetry by the Greek Nobel Prize-winner

	A Paradise of One's Own: Odysseas Elytis
	Sun the First	5
	The Hyacinth Symphony	8
	Famous Night	10
	Ode to Picasso	11
	Beauty and the Illiterate	15
	Daughter the North Wind Was Bringing	17
	Small Green Sea	18
	Villa Natacha	19
	The Monogram	21
	The Presence	29
	What Convinces	32
	The Poets	33
	Helen	34
	Maria Nefele's Song	36
	The Nefelegeretes	37
	The Kite	38
	The Forefathers' Paradise	40
	Patmos	42
	Pax San Tropezana	44
	Electra Bar	46
	The Apocalypse	48
	Entrance	53
	The Little Mariner: Spotlight a	54
	Anoint the Ariston: i-vii	55
	With Light and with Death: 1-7	58
	What One Loves: The Travel Sack	62
	The Little Mariner: Spotlight b	69
	Anoint the Ariston: viii-xiv	70
	With Light and with Death: 8-14	73
	What One Loves: Aegeodrome	77
	The Little Mariner: Spotlight c	81
	Anoint the Ariston: xv-xxi	82
	With Light and with Death: 15-21	85
	What One Loves: The Snapshots	89
	The Little Mariner: Spotlight d	94
	Anoint the Ariston: xxii-xxviii	95
	Exit	98
	Selections from Open Papers	101
	July's Word	119
	As the Oyster So Its Pearl	124
	If Not One Were	127
	As If by Chance	129
	In the School of Winds	132
	Steps a la Tchaikovsky	134
	Lumini and Sombri	136
	Eternally Past or Way Beyond Winter	139
	For Efessos	145
	At the Corner of Puberty and Bud	147
	For a Ville d'Avray	149
	Toward Troy	151
	In Ioulita's Blue	153
	The Marble Table	155
	As Endymion	157
	Afterword: "Eros, Eros, Eros"	161
	Notes	165
	Chronology	170
	About the Author	171
	About the Translator	171