Nikos Karouzos. Collected Poems. Translation by Philip Ramp. Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 2004. xix, 296 p.

ISBN 1899549951; 9781899549955

Contains: Babasakis, Giorgos-Ikaros. "Introduction": 'Guilty Innocence: Nikos Karouzos (17/07/1926–28/09/1990)', tr. Philip Ramp (pp. xiii-xvii); 'Idiosyncratic Squares (Others on Nikos Karouzos)', tr. Philip Ramp (pp. xvii-xviii); "Biographical Note on Nikos Karouzos" (p. xix); "Note on the Translator"(p. xix).

From Poems [Ποιήματα]: "Release Me from Your Malady" (p. 3); "Poetry" (p. 4); "The Prayer of the Worm" (p. 5); "Powers Which Rule the Waters" (pp. 6-10); "Yannis in Spring" (p. 11); "Athens, a Flame Blue in Colour" (p. 12); "Five Poems in the Dark": 'Image' (p. 13), 'Contrary' (p. 14), 'I Sense the Night' (p. 15), 'The Greek of Night' (p. 16), 'Perfumes and Flowers Do Not Exist' (p. 17); "The Foliage" (p. 18); "Plan for the Future of the Sky" (pp. 19-21); "On Sorrow" (pp. 22-26); "Terror and Sun" (p. 27); "Steadfast City" (p. 28); "Joy of an Invisible Dawn" (pp. 29-33); "Crumbs of Piousness" (p. 33); "My Future and Its Darkness" (pp. 34-36); "Six Poems for the Female": 'Two Women' (p. 37), 'The Imperishable Wood' (p. 37), 'Midnight' (p. 37), 'Some Praise for the Cricket' (p. 38), 'The Blood of Night' (pp. 38-39), 'I Exist' (p. 39); "Blue Magnitudes of Flame" (pp. 40-42); "Spring Hurts Me Again This Year" (p. 43); "In Athens" (p. 44); "The Identity of the Magician" (p. 45); "Christmas of the Stalagmite" (pp. 46-47); "Autumn 1953" (pp. 48-49).

From A Deer in the Stars [Η Έλαφος των άστρων] (1962): “Course of the Beloved” (pp. 53-55); “Nine Poems in Athens”: ‘Touching’ (p. 56), ‘On Stadiou Street’ (pp. 56-57), ‘On the Streets’, ‘Monastiraki’ (p. 57), ‘The Garden of Athens Breathing’ (p. 58), ‘Song for the Heavenly Landscape’ (pp. 58-59), ‘Evening of Leaves’ (p. 59), ‘Cemetery’, ‘Sonorous’ (p. 60); “Advents” (pp. 61-64); “The Ascent of Johann Sebastian Bach” (pp. 65-66); “In Mahler’s Forest” (pp. 67-68); “Music” (p. 68); “Memory of the Homeland” (pp. 69-70); “Triptych” (pp. 71-73); “Second Triptych” (pp. 74-76); “Fissures” (p. 76); “Woman, Obstinacy of Asia” (p. 77); “At Lindos” (pp. 78-81); “I Delight in Anapli” (p. 82); “The Poet Has a Sure Road” (p. 83).

From Sleeping Bag [Ο Υπνόσακος] (1964): First Fate: “A Greek Gardener with a Snow-Covered Watering Can” (pp. 89-91); “To Johann Sebastian Bach (as he shines with his whole family)” (pp. 92-94); “Entrance” (p. 95); “Flora and Fauna of Music” (p. 96); “In the Naked Gardens of Comedy” (pp. 97-98); “Orthodoxy” (p. 98); “The Nobility of Our Comedy”, “Remembering” (p. 99); “Solomos in My Dream” (p. 100); Second Fate: “Hovering, or the Bodies in the Jungle” (pp. 103-110); “Inner Ditramb” (p. 111); Third Fate: “Nature Descended and the Deed Ascended” (pp. 115-117); “Hail to the One Ascending” (pp. 118-122).

From Lamentations [Πενθήματα] (1969): “Mourning Higher Even than Love” (pp. 125-126); “The Floating Sky of Plotinus” (p. 126); “The Purposeless Passerby”, “Tremors” (p. 127); “Poem on a Tape Recorder” (p. 128); “In Kafka’s Rosy Shadow” (pp. 129-130); “The Rocks of Hydra” (pp. 131-132); “Quietism” (pp. 133-134); “Since We Composed Death” (pp. 134-135); “There Where the Ideal Begins” (p. 136); “Romantic Epilogue” (p. 137).

From Bandaids for Minor and Major Contradictions [Λευκοπλάστης για μικρές και μεγάλες αντινομίες] (1971): “All of a Sudden”, “The Viewpoint of Comedy” (p. 141); “All Life Is a Doctrine I Think” (p. 142); “Roman Vision” (pp. 143-144); “Nada”, “The Viewpoint of Serenity” (p. 145); “Misery in the Breast” (pp. 146-147); “Small Poems” (pp. 147-148); “I Remind You” (p. 149); “Fragmentation” (p. 150); “The Adverbial Men” (p. 151); “Anthology” (pp. 152-153); “An Exorcism to Be Said Out Loud” (p. 153); “The Acanthus” (pp. 154-155).

From Grassy Chasms [Χορταριαμένα χάσματα] (1974): “The Mellow Behaviour of Barbarossa” (pp. 159-161); “Beyond Consumption”, “In the Cold Currents of Great Anguish” (p. 162); “Chronicle of Equanimity” (pp. 163-165); “The End of the Incident with the Idols” (pp. 166-167); “The Precious Troubles of Scardanelli” (pp. 168-169); “Confusion” (p. 170); “The Temperate Dark of Saint-Just” (p. 171); “Tender Questions” (p. 172); “Methods of Night” (p. 173).

Descendant of Night [Απόγονος της νύχτας] (1978) (pp. 175-179).

From Possibilities and Uses of Speech [Δυνατότητες και χρήση της ομιλίας] (1979): “The Starry Photogenic” (p. 183); “I’m in the Habit of Saying Something” (p. 184); “Nothingness Took the Lead and It Follows that...” (p. 185); “Dreadful from Mellowness”, “If I Could Go Back to Nothing” (p. 186); “A Query in Order Not to Just Sit Idly” (p. 187); “My Investments in Hell” (p. 188); “Plundering” (p. 189).

From Zeal of the Non-Relative with Misprints [Ο ζήλος του μη σχετικού με παροράματα] (1980): “Sea: The Antiquity of Geography” (pp. 193-194); “Anti-Nebula” (p. 195); “17 July 1979” (p. 196); “The Vintage of the Deep
Surface”, “Fissures” (p. 197); “Burial-Mound” (p. 198); “In the Footsteps of William Blake” (p. 199); “The Appearance of Yannis Makryannis in a Dream on a Squalid Thursday” (pp. 199-203); “One Strum for Anarchy” (p. 203); “The Defects of Science”, “Spanish of Non-Spain” (p. 204); “Betraying My Indolence”, “Glow-Worms or Maybe” (p. 205); “I Penetrated Matter Howling”, “Peruvian Navigation” (p. 206); “Maddened July”, “from ‘Texts
for Bothering People’” (p. 207); “Writing from Melancholy”, “The Lethal Formulation” (p. 208).

From In a Word and in Few Words [Μονολεκτισμοί και ολιγόλεκτα] (1980) (pp. 209-213).

From Quiver [Φαρέτριον] (1981): “Close to Every Sun” (p. 217); “The First Realization”, “The Second Realization”, “Archbishop Romero” (p. 218); “Freedom and Poem” (pp. 219-220); “Nihilité” (p. 220); “Tyrannized by Superfluous Moons” (p. 221); “Lyrical Deontology”, “Art/Arrow/Toward Existence” (p. 222); “The Great Babylon”, “Tryptych” [sic: Triptych] (p. 223).

From Recollective Forgetfulness [Αναμνηστική λήθη] (1982): “The Small Donations” (p. 227); “Rocky Islets” (p. 228); “The Second Death”, “Taboo” (p. 229); “Non Multa sed Multum (Status and Elevation of Cavafy)” (p. 230); “On Mount Athos” (p. 231); “The Precocious Hell of Eva Braun” (pp. 232-233); “Lenin and Mahatma Ghandi”, “Autumn: The Clouds Loiter in the Sky” (p. 234).

From Antiseismic Tomb [Αντισεισμικός τάφος] (1984): “The Night Is in My Interest”, “Hydraulic Ruins” (p. 237); “My Right Palm on My Cheek” (p. 238); “Summer Comedy of Language” (p. 239); “Cumulus” (pp. 240-241); “Inspiration at the Tomb”, “We Derail Meaning” (p. 242); “Essence of a Lamb” (pp. 243-244); “Soundings from the Nervous System” (p. 245); “Word-Engine and a Life Sentence of Speech” (excerpts) (pp. 245-247).

From Elevator Maintenance [Συντήρηση ανελκυστήρων] (1986): “Running Dry of White Certainties” (p. 251); “I Want to Exist” (p. 252); “Ho Chi Minh Takes His Rest (in the brilliantly lit vehicle of Need)”, “Apartment Building”, “Quiet: Hospital” (p. 253); “The Estrangement in Visibility”, “Face to Face with Angels” (p. 254); “Mystery”, “Lamp-Post” (p. 255).

Neolithic Nachtmusik in Kronstadt [Νεολιθική νυχτωδία στην Κροστάνδη] (1987) (pp. 257-271).

From Writing with Red Lines [Ερυθρογράφος] (1988): “Jesus Anti-Oedipus” (pp. 275-276); “The Hammer of Life and” (p. 276); “Genesis” (p. 277); “Muleta”, “Becoming” (p. 278); “Alarm Clock”, “Missa Brevis (anticipated total of 44 lines)” (p. 279); “Black-Figured Myth” (p. 280); “God Is Always on My Side” (p. 281); “The Universe and Something More”, “Instantaneous Young Motorcyclist” (p. 282); “The Poem a Flying Squad” (p. 283).

From Logic of a Large Shape [Λογική μεγάλου σχήματος] (1989): “Lexiphrenia”, “Solemn Drums of Tragedy” (p. 287); “Violet-Coloured Objects” (p. 288); “The Injured Sleep” (p. 289).

From Discoveries in Blue Cobalt [Ευρέσεις από Κυανό κοβάλτιο] (1991): “Deep-Voiced”, “‘Apolloneio’” (p. 293); “The Omega Query” (p. 294); “Dross of Immortality”, “With a Little Leaf-Mould” (p. 295); “Suspension” (p. 296).