Hellenic Literature Society

A GREEK DIPTYCH: Dionysios Solomos and Alexandros Papadiamantis $ 25.00
by L. Coutelle & T. G. Stavrou, 113 pgs, 5.5x8.5

THE ANGELS (In English and in Greek) $ 15.95
by R. Pagoulatou, 77 pgs, 5.5x8.5, Paper
Twenty-three perceptive and provocative poems based on universal social themes: the classic struggle between good and evil, man's inhumanity to man, human hypocrisy and exploitation, etc. Illustrated

THE AXION ESTI $ 10.95
translated by E. Keeley & G. Savidis, 86 pgs, 6.0x9.0, Paper
"The Axion Esti" is probably the most widely read volume of verse to have appeared in Greece since World War II. Though the poem can perhaps be understood best as a spiritual autobiography which dramatizes the national and philosophical extensions of a highly personal sensibility, it is also read as an expression of the revolutionary spirit in Greece.

CAVAFY, The Complete Poems of $ 12.00
translated by R. Dalven, 311 pgs, 5.3x7.9, Paper
This volume presents the complete poems of the foremost modern Greek poet. Sixty-three newly translated poems have been added. Recognition of the poet's greatness has grown steadily since World War I. This volume includes Ithaca.

CAVAFY'S ALEXANDRIA $ 15.95
by Edmund Keeley, 208 pgs, 6x9, Paper
Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the only full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy's literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of the myth.

C. P. CAVAFY, Collected Poems $ 13.95
translated by Edmund Keeley, 284 pgs, Paper
Cavafy lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature.

THE FOURTH DIMENSION: Yiannis Ritsos P $ 14.95, C $ 49.50
translated by P. Green, 326 pgs, 6x9.3
In the dramatic monologues that make this work, the celebrated modern Greek poet presents a timeless poetic paradigm of the condition of Greece, past and present. The volume also contains a group of modern narratives.

GEORGE SEFERIS: Collected Poems P $ 14.95, C $ 39.50
translated by E. Keeley, 1991, 296 pgs , 5.5x8.5
Although Seferis was preoccupied with his tradition, and although he was actively engaged in the immediate political aspirations of his nation, his value for readers lies in what he made of his preoccupation and this engagement in fashioning a broad poetic vision.

GEORGE SEFERIS $ 26.50
by Roderick Beaton, 120 pgs, Cloth
A thorough new survey of the work & context of one of the century's leading poets.

GIFTS IN ABEYANCE: Last Poems 1981-91 $ 25.00
by Nikiforos Vrettakos, 106 pgs, Cloth
The poet was born in 1912 in the village of Krokees near Sparta. The poems in this volume come from collections published during the last ten years of his life. Translated by David Connolly.

THE GREEK POEMS OF C.P. CAVAFY $ 56.00
Volume I : The Canon
Volume II : The Unissued and "Repudiated" Poems
by Memas Kolaitis, 317 pgs both volumes, 6.3x9.3, Cloth
One of the major poets of the 20th century, C.P. Cavafy draws on a literary consciousness that spans three millennia. He has been described as the modern poet who carried on the tradition of the Anthologia Palatina.

GREEK POETRY, from Homer to Seferis $ 61.00
by C. A. Trypanis, 896 pgs, 6.5x10, Cloth
This volume traces the development of poetry from the Homeric Epic to the present day. This long evolution, the longest uninterrupted literary and cultural tradition in the Western world, has never been treated as a whole before.

GREEK POETRY TRANSLATIONS (Bi-lingual) $ 13.25
by M. Byron Raizis, 248 pgs, 5x7.5, Paper
An anthology of Greek poetry - in the original and in Raizis poetic translation - ranging from Solomos and Kazantzakis to Seferis and Christianopoulos, that demonstrates the challenges and individual resolutionsdemanded by effective verse translation. The scope and eloquence of these translations etch well the richness of modern Greek poetry.

GREEK WAR OF INDEPENNDENCE and Other Poems of Greek Heroes $ 15.25
by George Trambukis, 131 pgs, 5.5x8.3, Cloth
An epic poem describing the stirring story of the Greek's bold fight for freedom against impossible odds. No cause roused freedom-loving people in the world as did the Greek struggle for freedom, after four centuries of harsh domination by the Ottoman Empire.

GREEK WOMEN POETS $ 8.25
translation by E. Fourtouni, 74 pgs, 5.5x8.3, Paper
A genuine "trailblazer' ... the poetry in this volume is stunning, marked by very powerful emotions and commensurate linguistic excitement. "...stirring translations... Songs of khaki tents, olive trees, firing squads, and dead sistersshrouded in fish nets are at once revolutionary, sexual, lyric. Their voices are defiant ceacons.

ISLAND OF TEARS $ 8.50
by W. R. Hawkins, 103 pgs, 24 color illustrations, 9.4x6.5, Paper
The poet's visit to Spinaloga left him inspired to write "Island of Tears". It is not difficult to fall in love with both Crete and its people. The inspiration of the poem came from the ability to feel the tragic sufferings.

KOSTIS PALAMAS: A Portrait & an Appreciation $ 20.00
by T. G. Stavrou & C. Trypanis, 144 pgs, Cloth
This volume contains two introductory essays on the life and work of the poet as well as two of his poetic works: Lambs and Anapaests and Ascraeus.

THE LADY OF THE VINEYARDS (In English and in Greek) $ 8.00
by Yannis Ritsos, 77 pgs, 5.5x8.5, Paper
The classic epic book-length poem about the German occupation of Greece, translated for the first time in English.

LOVE AND THE SYMBOLIC JOURNEY IN THE POETRY OF CAVAFY, ELIOT AND SEFERIS $ 13.00
by C. Capri-Karka, 374 pgs, Paper
A critical examination of the theme of love in the poetry of Cavafy, Eliot and Seferis.

MODERN GREEK POETRY $ 16.50
by Kimon Friar, 326 pgs, 5x7, Paper
The finest summation of Greek poetry available. An anthology of 32 modern Greek poets, including Cavafis, Seferis, Elytis, Sikelianos, Ritsos.

MODERN GREEK POETRY, Voice & Myth $ 39.50
by Edmund Keeley, 232 pgs, 5.7x8.7, Cloth
This book brings together essays by a distinguished translator and critic of modern Greek poetry, and it provides a much-needed critical introduction to those twentieth-century Greek poets who are the most interrelated in their own tradition and who have earned the widest American audience.

MONOVASIA & THE WOMEN OF MONEMVASIA $ 20.00
by Yannis Ritsos
Translated from the modern Greek with an introduction by Kimon Friar and Kostas Myrsiades.

MOTHERHOOD (In English and in Greek) $ 9.00
by R. Pagoulatou, 87 pgs, 5.5x8.5, Paper
A book-length poem on the theme of motherhood, illustrated.

THE NEW ORESTEIA OF YANNIS RITSOS $ 12.95
translated by G. Pilitsis, 168 pgs, 5.5x8.5, Paper
By re-creating the legend of the House of Atreus, Ritsos attempts to express symbolically a tragic sense of life and to expound dramatically on contemporary Greek realities with historical detachment.

ODYSSEUS ELYTIS: From the Golden to the Silver Poem $ 15.00
by Andonis Decavalles, 218 pgs, 5.5x8.2, Paper
All seven essays in this volume are dedicated to the eminent modernist Greek poet, the Nobel laureate of 1979, and its accomplishments. As a poet he has been the creator and preacher of his unique , lyrical, cultural and ethical Gospel which his erotic idiosyncrasy derived mostly from the age-old Greek tradition and from his origins in the Aegean sea, and voiced through his rich, original and extraordinary lyrical gifts.

OTHERS MUST DANCE FOR THE LORD DIONYSUS $ 11.00
by Kostas, Myrsiades, 72 pgs, Paper
This is a poem in which mythic figures ascend from funeral spaces to stroll the village streets and descend again to light their darkened realms, of saints in wooden casings stern above the bedsheets of shuttered homes, of wrinkled men whose vineyards suck their life's wine.

POEMS $ 20.00
by Ioanna Tsatsos
Translated from the original Greek by J. Demos and with an introduction by C. A. Trypanis.

POEMS BY LILI BITA
Bacchic Odes (In English and in Greek) $ 6.00
27 pgs, 6.5x9.3, Paper
Excavations (In English and in Greek) $ 7.00
57 pgs, 5.5x8.5, Paper
Fire Walkers $ 8.00
56 pgs, 6x9, Paper
Fleshfire $ 8.00
47 pgs, 5.9x8.9, Paper
Lighting in the Flesh (In English and in Greek) $ 7.00
54 pgs, 5.5x8.5, Paper

POEMS: REINVESTIGATIONS AND DESCENT FROM THE CROSS $ 10.00
by Kostas Kindinis, Cloth
Translated from the modern Greek with preface by Kimon Friar.

THE POETICS OF CAVAFY, Textuality, Eroticism $ 39.50
by Gregory Jusdanis, 193 pgs, 5.9x8.7, Cloth
This full-length theoretical examination of Cavafy breaks the study of this great Greek poet free from the narrow context of traditional scholarship and introduces the latest critical developments into the study of Greek poetry.

PYRRHICHIOS (In English and in Greek) $ 5.90
by R. Pagoulatou, 111 pgs, 5.5x8.5, Paper
A collection of Haiku-Like poetry on social themes.

RANKA $ 4.90
by A. N. Athanassakis, 64 pgs, Paper
A collection of poetryconcerned with erotic and Norse themes.

RESISTANCE, EXILE AND LOVE $ 9.00
edited by N. Spanias, 170 pgs, 5.5x8.5, Paper
An anthology of eighteen modern Greek poets of the postwar period.

SKIATHOS & OTHER POEMS $ 5.50
by Richard Buchanan-Dunlop, 110 pgs, 7.5x4.7, Paper
The author leads a life that many an Englishman dreams of - an idyllic existence on the stunningly beautiful island of Skiathos in the Sporades.

THE TARGET (In English and in Greek) $ 10.00
by M. Anagnostakis, 135 pgs, 5.5x8.5, Paper
Anagnostakis' participation in the public and political events of the Greek civil war is extremely relevant to his poetry, for his books are, in effect, a chronicle, even a kind of confession, of his involvement.

TOO SHY TO SURRENDER $ 9.20
by M. Coulentianos-Bean, 41 pgs, 5.5x8.5, Paper
This is poetry not merely written by the individual hand but sculpted with the chisel of time and fed by the rich blood of the Romiosyne.

VOICES OF MODERN GREECE $ 13.95
by E. Keeley, 203 pgs, 5.5x8.5, Paper
Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, and Nikos Gatsos. The poems included in this anthology are representative of the best work of the original poets.

URSA MINOR AND OTHER POEMS $ 25.00
by Takis Papatsonis, 103 pgs, Cloth
Papatsonis's most mature poems treat themes of darkness and light, nature and divinity, the feminine presence as man's intercessor, and the Greek myths. He viewed his poetic output as basically "pantheist". Translated by Kimon Friar and Kostas Myrsiades.

WATCH THE FLAME $ 8.25
by E. Fourtouni,78 pgs, 5x8, Paper
Poems by Eleni Fourtouni

YANNIS RITSOS, SELECTED POEMS $ 10.00
212 pages, 7.5x4.9, Paper
Despite his major international reputation as one of Europe's most important poets today, this is the first English translation which attempts a comprehensive presentation of his voluminous work.

YANNIS RITSOS: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses P $ 13.95, C $ 45.00
translated by E. Keeley, 1991, 246 pgs, 5.5x8.5
The shorter poems gathered in this volume present what Ritsos calls "simple things" that turn out not to be simple at all.

3X111 TRISTICHS OF YIANNIS RITSOS $ 13.00
translated by R.M. Newton, 182 pgs, 5.5x8.5, Paper
In this work the poet looks back on his life of extremes with a poet's perspective and with the directness of simple language, he evokes images from the Greek landscape, blending them with the music of verse into a philosophic consistency.

4 GREEK WOMEN POETS $ 8.25
translation by E. Fourtouni, 79 pgs, 5.5x8.3, Paper
Poems by Victoria Theodorou, Angeliki Pavlopoulou, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke and Eleni Fourtouni.