An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry

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Summary: Ranges from wistful to enthusiastic to scalding sharp-edged
Review: Edited with superb English translations by Nanos Valaoritis and Thanasis Maskaleris, An Anthology Of Modern Greek Poetry is an extensive collection of contemporarey Greek verse from Constantine P. Cavafy, Nobel Prize winner Odysseus Elytris, Angelos Sikelianos, and many more. An immense collection that sweepingly covers poetic range from wistful to enthusiastic to scalding sharp-edged, An Anthology Of Modern Greek Poetry is highly recommended for modern Greek literature shelves and reading lists. "At The Monastery Of Saint Luke": At the Monastery of Saint Luke, of all / the women of Stirio who had gathered / to deck the Epitaphios, and all / the mourners who until the dawn of Easter Saturday / had stayed awake, who could have thought - / so sweetly they lamented - that the pure enaml /underneath the flowers was flesh, / the flesh of pain-wracked and dead Adonis?