Andonis Decavalles. Ransoms to Time: Selected Poems. Translated from the modern Greek with an introduction and notes by Kimon Friar. Rutherford; Madison; Teaneck, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1984. 142 p.

ISBN 0838631800; 9780838631805

Introduction (pp. 13-43).

From Nimúle-Gondokóro (1949): "A Greek Trireme" (1947) (p. 49); "The Well" (1948) (pp. 49-50); "Tragedia Minima" (1948) (pp. 50-51); "Time of Judgement" (1948) (p. 51); "Premature Transformation into Spirit" (1948) (pp. 51-52); "Episode" (1948) (pp. 52-53).

From Akís (1950): "Resurrection of a Dead Man" (1948) (p. 57); "Letter from Ithaca" (1948) (pp. 58-59); "The Vigil of Euthyphron" (1948) (pp. 59-60); "Night Walk" (1948) (pp. 60-61); "Street X, Number 7, Red-Light District" (1948) (pp. 61-62); "Dark Rose" (1948) (pp. 62-64); "The Mother Who Fell in Love with Death" (1949) (pp. 64-65).

From Oceanids (1970):

    Ekkyklema: "Script" (1965); "Ekkyklema: The Poem" (1968) (p. 69); "For the Tree to Remember" (1968) (p. 70); "The Dominant Voice" (1968) (pp. 70-71); "Morpheus's Sonnet" (1969) (pp. 71-72); "Debts" (1970) (pp. 72-73); "Anguish" (1970) (p. 73);

    Sea: "Gain and Loss in an Aegean Metamorphosis" (1961) (pp. 74-75); "The Name of Fire" (1964) (pp. 75-76); "The Unsaid" (1965) (pp. 76-77); "Now that Night Has Fallen" (1967) (pp. 77-78); "'Now Lettest Thou'" (1969) (pp. 78-79); "Other Self" (1969) (pp. 79-80); "The Fingers" (1969) (p. 81); "Waterdrops and Drummer" (1969) (pp. 81-82); "Between Stops" (1969) (pp. 82-83); "Few Words of a Generation" (1970) (pp. 83-84);

    Ocean: "Christmas" (1954) (p. 84); "Leyenda (Lake Michigan)" (1956) (pp. 85-86); "The Screw" (1956) (pp. 86-87); "Martha's Vineyard" (1968) (pp. 87-88); "Evening Glory" (1968) (p. 88); "Robert Trail Spence Lowell" (1969) (p. 89); "Oceanids" (1969) (pp. 90-91); "Subway" (1970) (p. 91); "Report" (1970) (p. 92);

    Of Myth: "A Tree of Fire" (1948 & 1968) (pp. 92-93); "Arcano Sanguinis Humani" (1968) (pp. 93-96).

From Joints, Ships, Ransoms [Αρμοί, καράβια, λύτρα] (1976): "Windows" (1960) (p. 99); "On the Third Year" (1965) (pp. 99-100); "Departures" (1966) (p. 101); "The Lymph I Have Become" (1968) (pp. 101-102); "Melisto, Mnesikrates' Daughter" (1968) (pp. 102-103); "Jigsaw Puzzle" (1970) (p. 103); "Double Landscape in Main" (1972) (p. 104); "Hour of Birth" (1972) (pp. 104-105); "Relentless Sower" (1973) (pp. 105-106); "Zoöphóros" (1973) (pp. 106-107); "White Wheat" (1973) (pp. 107-108); "Next Time " (1973) (pp. 108-110); "A Foreign Airman Buried in St. Paul's Cemetery" (1973) (p. 110); "Uranía" (1973) (p. 111); "The Coat Hanger" (1973) (pp. 111-112); "They Said to Katerina" (1973) (p. 112); "Hollow Rock" (1973) (p. 113); "The Tiller, the Potter's Wheel, the Plow Handle" (1974) (pp. 113-115); "To the Master Builder" (1974) (pp. 116-117); "What Ransom of Dawn" (1975) (p. 118); "Uncaring Power" (1976) (pp. 118-119); "Ramon's Boat" (1976) (pp. 119-120).

New Poems: "Four-String Instrument" (1980) (p. 123); "Artemis" (1981) (p. 124).

Appendix: Joints, Ships, Ransoms: An Interview with Andónis Decaválles (pp. 125-134); Biographical Notes (pp. 135-137); Notes (pp. 138-141); Publications by Andónis Decaválles (p. 142).