Mara's Shade

Poetry. Translated from the Greek by David Connolly. Anastassis Vistonitis occupies a unique position in Greek letters: equally acclaimed as a poet and a journalist, he switches from one medium to the other with seeming ease, now composing poems and literary essays, now turning out book reviews and articles, often on the same day. Both streams feed the sea of his imagination--he calls his prose a continuation of poetry by other means--and his Greek readers are fortunate to have his work available to them in so many forms.... What good luck to have a selection of his poems in English, in the splendid translation of David Connolly--Chrisopher Merrill, from his Introduction.