Melissanthi. Hailing the Ascending Morn: Selected Poems. Translated and introduced by Maria Voelker-Kamarinea. Athens: Prosperos, 1987. xv, 118 p. [Bilingual edition]. [To Melissanthi for her 80th birthday].
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Includes: "Introductory Note" by Maria Voelker-Kamarinea (pp. ix-xv).
Greek and English are given on facing pages.
The selection is separated into:
Earlier Poems, 1931-1950 (pp. 1-23): "Song to the Sun" (pp. 2-3); "The Secret Name" (pp. 4-5); "Slaughterhouse" (pp. 6-7); "Inscrutable Thy Ways" (pp. 8-11); "Watch Ye" (pp. 12-15); "Credo" (pp. 16-19); "Prayer" (pp. 20-21); "Sunken Cities" (pp. 22-23).
Late Poems, 1960-1984 (pp. 25-113): "There Is No Peace in Death" (fragment) (pp. 26-31); "Terrible Suspicion" (pp. 32-33); "To the Coming Night" (pp. 34-35); "Cyclical" (pp. 36-37); "As Evening Descends" (pp. 38-39); "Frozen Eternity" (pp. 40-43); "The Cemetery of Our Little Town", I-V (pp. 44-49); "Anchored at Midnight" (pp. 50-51); "The Hour Is Critical" (pp. 52-53); "The Houses of Our Past" (pp. 54-55); "The Inside and the Outside" (pp. 56-57); "Satirikon" (pp. 58-59).
Exercises in Silence: "Nobody" (pp. 60-61); "Pages from Palaeontology" (pp. 62-65); "The Sacrament of Holy Eucharist" (pp. 66-67); "The Tree of the Cross" (pp. 68-69); "Joan of Arc" (pp. 70-71); "The Hour of Man" (pp. 72-73); "Words of Job" (pp. 74-77); "The Other Time" (pp. 78-79); "At the Sound of Drums" (pp. 80-81); "Haunted in Sleep" (pp. 82-83); "The End of Ages", I-III (pp. 84-89); "Year of Salvation 1980" (pp. 90-91); "Capital City 1980" (pp. 92-93); "The End of the Game", I-III (pp. 94-97); "Zero Hour" (pp. 98-101); "Monologue" (pp. 102-105); "Shattering Hour" (pp. 106-107); "Hailing the Ascending Morn" (pp. 108-109); "Dionysos Crucified" (pp. 110-111); "Aurum Nostrum" (pp. 112-113).
Biographical Note (pp. 115-116); Books by Melissanthi (p. 117); A Select Bibliography (p. 118).