The collected poems of George Seferis in a bilingual edition.

Collected Poems 1924-1955 (English and Greek Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Sherrard, Philip

Keeley, Edmund

Sepheres, Giorgos

Poetry

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

The radiant light of Greece-its landscape and poetry-as witnessed in the dark years when it was almost extinguished. In the looming shadow of an oppressive dictatorship and imminent world war, George Seferis, George Katsimbalis, and other poets and writers from Greece's fabled Generation of the Thirties welcomed Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell to their homeland. Together they explored the Peloponnesus, swam off island beaches, and considered the meaning of Greek life and freedom. They seemed to be inventing paradise. In this evocative synthesis of personal memoir, literary criticism, and interpretative narrative, Edmund Keeley explores the poetry, friendships, and politics that made those extraordinary encounters so vital. For Miller and Durrell, the journey into Greece transformed their art and their lives, and in response they wrote some of their most important work. For the Greek poets, it reconfirmed their sense of the vitality of their own country and helped to sustain them during the harsh seasons to come. As Keeley shows, their eloquence, courage, and dedication kept the greatness of Greece alive when the German occupation, a violent civil war, and the depredations of mass tourism threatened to destroy it. Other writers later drew on the invented paradise of these good friends and reimagined it for the future. This remarkable work of cultural history and imaginative criticism is a crowning achievement from one of our finest literary interpreters.

Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

A Wilderness Called Peace

Interwoven with the first person account of Sameth, a woman of complex European-Asian background, is the story of the efforts of her former lover, an American diplomat, to track her down in Cambodia shattered by war and convulsed by tyranny

Laurel

Interwoven with the first-person account of Sameth, a woman of complex European-Asian background, is the story of the efforts of her former lover, an American diplomat, to track her down in a Cambodia shattered by war and convulsed by tyranny

United States

Simon&Schuster

The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair

Edmund Keeley makes a penetrating inquiry into the injustices of the "Polk affair"--the sensational murder of the zealous American journalist George Polk during the Greek Civil War, and the subsequent trial of a scapegoat in whitewashed proceedings that involved not only Greek, American, and British government officials but also a committee of distinguished American journalists and their representatives in Greece. Keeley's account shows how Cold War politics and Greek civil conflict led to the torture, forced confession, and conviction of a Salonika journalist. "[A] masterly reexamination of the affair. . . . Keeley has done remarkable work in bringing to light a great deal that was not previously known." --C. M. Woodhouse, The New York Review of Books " . . . a compelling work of detection and analysis. . . . a readable and provocative work." --Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times " . . . painstaking research, coupled with an admirable intellectual rigor, has produced a work that is a model of clarity and honesty."--Phillip Knightley, The Washington Post Book World

History

Europe

Princeton University Press

C. P. 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 first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy's literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth.

Cavafy's Alexandria

Edmund Keeley makes a penetrating inquiry into the injustices of the "Polk affair"--the sensational murder of the zealous American journalist George Polk during the Greek Civil War, and the subsequent trial of a scapegoat in whitewashed proceedings that involved not only Greek, American, and British government officials but also a committee of distinguished American journalists and their representatives in Greece. Keeley's account shows how Cold War politics and Greek civil conflict led to the torture, forced confession, and conviction of a Salonika journalist. "[A] masterly reexamination of the affair. . . . Keeley has done remarkable work in bringing to light a great deal that was not previously known." --C. M. Woodhouse, The New York Review of Books " . . . a compelling work of detection and analysis. . . . a readable and provocative work." --Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times " . . . painstaking research, coupled with an admirable intellectual rigor, has produced a work that is a model of clarity and honesty."--Phillip Knightley, The Washington Post Book World

The description for this book, Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth, will be forthcoming.

Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth

History & Criticism

The celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos follows such distinguished predecessors as C. P. Cavafy and George Seferis in a dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The shorter poems gathered in this volume present what Ritsos calls "simple things" that turn out not to be simple at all. Here we find a world of subtle nuances, in which everyday events hide much that is threatening, oppressive, and spiritually vacuous--but the poems also provide lyrical and idyllic interludes, along with cunning re-creations of Greek mythology and history. This collection of Ritsos's work--perhaps most of all those poems written while he was in forced exile under the dictatorship of the Colonels--testifies to his just place among the major European poets of this century. The distinguished translator of modern Greek poetry Edmund Keeley has chosen for this anthology selections from seven of Ritsos's volumes of shorter poems written between 1946 and 1975. Two of these volumes are represented here in English versions for the first time, two others have been translated only sporadically, and the remaining three were first published in a bilingual edition now out of print (Ritsos in Parentheses). The collection thus covers thirty years of a poetic career that is the most prolific, and among the most honored, in Greece's modern history.

Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses

Yannis Ritsos

Collected Poems [of] C.P. Cavafy

Kavaphe, K. P.

Savidis, George

Sherrard, Phillip

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Collected Poems 1924-1955 (English and Greek Edition)

Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47

A Wilderness Called Peace

A Wilderness Called Peace

The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair

Cavafy's Alexandria

The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair

Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth

Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses

Collected Poems [of] C.P. Cavafy