Eros, eros, eros : selected and last poems / by Odysseas Elytis ; translated from the Greek by Olga Broumas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elytēs, Odysseas, 1911-1996.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English

Language:

English

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Physical Description:

xx, 171 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, [1998]

Summary:

Olga Broumas has chosen poems from the full range of Odysseas Elytis's Nobel Prize-winning poetry, including his early work when he was associated with the Surrealists, to the entirety of his long poem The Little Mariner, as well as a previously unavailable selection of his last poems, written shortly before his death in 1996. Elytis himself offers the best description of his work: "If a separate personal Paradise exists for each of us, mine must be irreparably planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying eros, eros, eros".

Contents:

What I love. Sun the first

The Hyacinth symphony

Famous night

Ode to Picasso

Beauty and the illiterate

Daughter the north wind was bringing

Small green sea

Villa Natacha

The monogram

Selections From Maria Nefele. The presence

What convinces

The poets

Helen

Maria Nefele's song

The Nefelegerétes

The kite

The forefathers' paradise

Patmos

Pax San Tropezana

Electra bar

The Apocalypse

The little mariner. Entrance

The little mariner

Anoint the Ariston

With light and with death

What one loves

Exit

Selections from Open papers / translated and compiled by Olga Broumas and T. Begley

Selection from The outrock elegies. July's word

The garden with the self-deceptions. As the oyster so its pearl

If not one were

As if by chance

In the school of winds

Steps à la Tchaikovsky

Lumini and sombri

Eternally past or way beyond winter

West of sorrow. For Efessos

At the corner of puberty and bud

For a Ville d'Avray

Toward Troy

In Ioulíta's blue

The marble table

As Endymion.

ISBN:

1556590830

OCLC:

39093550