Poetry. Translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich. BEFORE LYRICISM includes six book-length poems: The Forest (1954), Plant Upbringing (1956), Diary of Age (1958), Description of the Body (1959), Th
In The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis, one of Greece's most prolific contemporary authors tackles the multiple specters of Greece's (and his own) past 75 years: childhood during World War
An aging writer, fragile and flawed. A father trying to win back the daughters he has lost. A mother trying on her daughter's pointe shoes when no one else is home. Two sisters in their eighties, shar
A collection of blistering, darkly humorous stories that upend the idyllic image of the Greek holiday island.Seeking to escape the paralyzing effects of the Greek economic crisis, a group of Athenian
Poems (1945-1971) contains selections from the first seven volumes of Miltos Sachtouris’ work. The collection traces the poetic development of a writer deeply affected by the turmoil of his times, fro
"Flawlessly translated, Amanda Michalopoulou's Why I Killed My Best Friend uses the backdrop of Greek politics, radical protests, and the art world to explore the dangers and joys that come with BFFs.
"A perfect book."?Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story and Genet: A BiographyIn June 1897, the young Constantine Cavafy arrives in Paris on the last stop of a long European tour, a trip that will
From a major new Greek writer, never before translated—a wide-ranging, muck-raking, beautifully written novel about the unsolved murder of an American journalist in Greece in the fortiesIn 1948, the b
Every time I want to write, want to write love stories. But as soon as I pick up the pen I'm overcome by horror.The story is simple. A woman and a man marry; their marriage ends in cruelty, infidelit
A brilliant work of the imagination as well as a meditation on writing itself, the story follows a biographer’s investigation into the life and works of a famous, yet highly mysterious, deceased Greek
Ikonomou's stories convey the plight of those worst affected by the Greek economic crisis--laid-off workers, hungry children. In the urban sprawl between Athens and Piraeus, the narratives roam restle
Literary Translation and the Making of Originals engages such issues as the politics and ethics of translation; how aesthetic categories and market forces contribute to the establishment and promotion
Literary Translation and the Making of Originals engages such issues as the politics and ethics of translation; how aesthetic categories and market forces contribute to the establishment and promotion
"Without Ritsos' eloquence, Greeks would have forgotten how to name all those things that are there before their eyes."—Pantelis Prevelakis This long poem is a nuanced and moving account of the poet's
