Yorgos Chronas - Γιώργος Χρονάς. 99 Poems - 99 ποιήματα. Selected, translated and introduced by Yannis Goumas. Επιλογή, μετάφραση και εισαγωγή Γιάννη Γκούμα. Athens: Odos Panos Publications - Εκδόσεις Οδός Πανός, 1999. 283 p. [Bilingual edition].

ISBN 9607716272 pbk; 9789607716279

The entire book has Greek and English on facing pages. Includes: Yannis Goumas, "Prolegomenon" (pp. 8-18). The poems have been selected from several collections:

From Book 1 (Βιβλίο 1, 1973): "Perama" (pp. 20-21); "It Is Always August" (pp. 22-23); "Ibycus" (pp. 24-25); "Wednesday" (pp. 26-27); "Absence" (pp. 28-29); "Metamorphosis or, July" (pp. 30-31); "Deaf or Dumb" (pp. 32-33); "A Dry Yellow Stain" (pp. 34-35); "Natura Morta" (pp. 36-37); "He Lives" (pp. 38-39); "The Dead Have Filled the Corridors" (pp. 40-41); "In Hades" (pp. 42-43); "I, II, III" (pp. 44-45); "I, II" (pp. 46-49); "Who Told You I Couldn't" (pp. 50-57); "No, We Musn't" (pp. 58-61); "Lament for Initiated Travellers" (pp. 62-63); "Ode to Marilyn Monroe" (pp. 64-65); "Arrival Scene in Genoa" (pp. 66-69); "Proposed Poem for an Aspiring Poet" (pp. 70-71); "A Banned Christmas Love Song" (pp. 72-73); "Parma" (pp. 74-75); "Unknown Folk Song" (pp. 76-77); "Design for a Stele in a Church Nocturnal and Black" (pp. 78-79).

From The Lamps (Λάμπες, 1974): "Lamps" (pp. 80-81); "The Hammam of Muhtar Pasha" (pp. 82-83); "The Fall and Controlled Rise of the Population in Working-Class Districts" (pp. 84-95); "War Requiem" (pp. 96-103); "European Landscape" (pp. 104-111); "My Friend Thea" (pp. 112-113); "Freedmen" (pp. 114-115); "The River Loussios" (pp. 116-117); "In Memoriam" (pp. 118-119); "We'll Return at Night" (pp. 120-121); "Portrait" (pp. 122-125); "Rubbish, A" (pp. 126-127); "Rubbish, B" (pp. 126-127); "Faces on the Ceiling" (pp. 128-129).

From The Black Heels (Μαύρα Τακούνια, 1979): "This time last year we buried Teresa ..." (pp. 130-131); "Mother, from where I am ..." (pp. 130-131); "So I'm dead. Calm down ..." (pp. 132-133); "My God, that's how he held my head ..." (pp. 132-133); "How could you stand listening to that song ..." (pp. 134-135); "Grammophones will play as they did then ..." (pp. 134-135); "When it's cold at night, he wrote me ..." (pp. 136-137); "It's become a habit, Violetta ..." (pp. 136-137); "Wearing black overcoats and high heels ..." (pp. 138-139); "Of all the chicks that passed through this village ..." (pp. 138-139); "Having found him; hold on to him ..." (pp. 140-141); "And you who wear golden heels ..." (pp. 140-141); "Only me and Lola know ..." (pp. 142-143); "We were like sisters, living frivolously ..." (pp. 142-143); "We stood watch over Efi all night long ..." (pp. 144-145); "In Two Arcadian Ways for Aphrodite, A, B" (pp. 146-155); "Hurry up, stranger, don't be long ..." (pp. 156-157).

From the cycle The J.S. Bach Bar (Το μπαρ J.S. Bach, no date): "One of those men ..." (pp. 158-159); "Fingers shrink in the cold ..." (pp. 158-159); "What moves him to come with us ..." (pp. 160-161); "The Egyptians cherished / the worship of the dead ..." (pp. 160-161); "Let me take a quick shower ..." (pp. 162-163); "All sailors aboard the ship know ..." (pp. 162-163); "You, afternoon sailors ..." (pp. 164-165); "The cock and I have sprinkled all housing projects ..." (pp. 164-165); "But can't you / can't you see ..." (pp. 166-167); "Sailors sometimes keep / their distance from things ..." (pp. 166-167); "A lad of eighteen ..." (pp. 168-169); "There go the strolls in the harbour ..." (pp. 168-169); "Then the bar counter was torn asunder ..." (pp. 170-171); "Not Less than a Hundred" (pp. 172-175); "The Small Fish" (pp. 176-177).

From Impudent Triumph (Αναιδής θρίαμβος, 1984): "The Soldiers of Thebes" (pp. 178-179); "Allegory" (pp. 180-181); "Debaucheries of the Past", A, B (pp. 182-183); "Monologue of an Usherette" (pp. 184-189); "Il Vero" (pp. 190-191); "Pensare" (pp. 192-193); "Imaginare" (pp. 194-195); "Sentire" (pp. 196-197); "Midnight Sailor" (pp. 198-201); "The Murder of Mrs Nihil" (pp. 202-205); "The Songs of Oedipus", 1-6 (pp. 206-211); "Sperm Poems" (pp. 212-221); "Devil on the Tiles" (pp. 222-225); "Christ in Spata" (pp. 226-229); "The End of a Newspaper Publisher" (pp. 230-237); "Ode" (pp. 238-239).

From Fancy Goods Shop (Κατάστημα νεωτερισμών, 1997): "Blessed Are They That Mourn in Courtyards with Broken Tiles While Waiting for the Photographer to Arrive on Sunday" (pp. 240-241); "La Morte degli Amanti" (pp. 242-245); "Greek Fantasy" (pp. 246-247); "Dream" (pp. 248-249); "When the Musical Score Ends" (pp. 250-251); "Legacy, A" (pp. 252-253); "Legacy, B" (pp. 252-253); "Gas Cylinders" (pp. 254-255); "Apotheosis" (pp. 256-257); "Nameless" (pp. 258-263); "Letter to a Disc Jockey" (pp. 264-265); "Cafeteria 'Minion'" (pp. 266-267); "Chinese Hawkers" (pp. 268-269); "Landscapes" (pp. 270-271); "Pasolini in Rafina" (pp. 272-275).

Biographical Notes (pp. 282-283).

Review by Vrasidas Karalis in Modern Greek Studies (Australia & New Zealand) 13 (2005): 299-304.