Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected and Last Poems

by Elytis, Odysseus

• ISBN13: 9781556590832
• ISBN10: 1556590830
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

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".

Table of Contents

A Paradise of One's Own: Odysseas Elytis	xi
WHAT I LOVE	5	(24)
Sun the First	5	(3)
The Hyacinth Symphony	8	(2)
Famous Night	10	(1)
Ode to Picasso	11	(4)
Beauty and the Illiterate	15	(2)
Daughter the North Wind Was Bringing	17	(1)
Small Green Sea	18	(1)
Villa Natacha	19	(2)
The Monogram	21	(8)
Selections from MARIA NEFELE	29	(24)
The Presence	29	(3)
What Convinces	32	(1)
The Poets	33	(1)
Helen	34	(2)
Maria Nefele's Song	36	(1)
The Nefelegeretes	37	(1)
The Kite	38	(2)
The Forefathers' Paradise	40	(2)
Patmos	42	(2)
Pax San Tropezana	44	(2)
Electra Bar	46	(2)
The Apocalypse	48	(5)
THE LITTLE MARINER	53	(48)
Entrance	53	(1)
The Little Mariner: Spotlight a	54	(1)
Anoint the Ariston: i-vii	55	(3)
With Light and with Death: I-7	58	(4)
What One Loves: The Travel Sack	62	(7)
The Little Mariner: Spotlight b	69	(1)
Anoint the Ariston: viii-xiv	70	(3)
With Light and with Death: 8-14	73	(4)
What One Loves: Aegeodrome	77	(4)
The Little Mariner: Spotlight c	81	(1)
Anoint the Ariston: xv-xxi	82	(3)
With Light and with Death: 15-21	85	(4)
What One Loves: The Snapshots	89	(5)
The Little Mariner: Spotlight d	94	(1)
Anoint the Ariston: xxii-xxviii	95	(3)
Exit	98	(3)
Selections from OPEN PAPERS	101	(18)
Translated and compiled by Olga Broumas
Translated and compiled by T Begley
Selection from THE OUTROCK ELEGIES July's Word	119	(5)
THE GARDEN WITH THE SELF-DECEPTIONS	124	(21)
As the Oyster So Its Pearl	124	(3)
If Not One Were	127	(2)
As If by Chance	129	(3)
In the School of Winds	132	(2)
Steps a la Tchaikovsky	134	(2)
Lumini and Sombri	136	(3)
Eternally Past or Way Beyond Winter	139	(6)
WEST OF SORROW	145	(16)
For Efessos	145	(2)
At the Corner of Puberty and Bud	147	(2)
For a Ville d'Avray	149	(2)
Toward Troy	151	(2)
In Ioulita's Blue	153	(2)
The Marble Table	155	(2)
As Endymion	157	(4)
APPENDICES	161
Afterword: "Eros, Eros, Eros"	161	(4)
Notes	165	(5)
Chronology	170	(1)
About the Author	171	(1)
About the Translator	171