Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected & Last Poems

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