Yannis Ritsos. Selected Poems. Translated by Nikos Stangos. With an introduction by Peter Bien. Athens: Efstathiadis Group, 1981. 212 p.

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Re-published in 1983. 212 p. (ISBN 9602260432).

Originally Harmondsworth, Middlesex, UK and Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1974 (ISBN 014042184X; 9780140421842). The original edition was out of print in 1986.

Peter Bien, Introduction (pp. 11-38).

From Testimonies [Μαρτυρίες] A (1963): "Morning" (p. 41); "Unexpropriated" (p. 42); "Stones" (p. 43); "One Night" (p. 44); "Gradations of Sensation" (p. 45); "Noon" (p. 46); "Cast" (p. 47); "Moments of Devout Concentration" (p. 48); "Summer" (p. 49); "Almost a Conjurer" (p. 50); "Audible and Inaudible" (p. 51); "Memory" (p. 52); "The Alibi" (p. 53); "Association" (p. 54); "The Somnambulist and the Other" (p. 55); "Shadows of Movement" (p. 56); "Alone with His Work" (p. 57); "Knocking" (p. 58).

From Testimonies [Μαρτυρίες] B (1966): "Unconfirmed" (p. 61); "The Day of a Sick Man" (p. 62); "His Find" (p. 63); "The Suspect" (p. 64); "The Same Night" (p. 65); "Spring" (p. 66); "Another Holiday" (p. 67); "Blowing" (p. 68); "Another Time" (p. 69); "Dazzled" (p. 70); "Morning Rain" (p. 71); "Emergence" (p. 72); "The Main Thing" (p. 73); "Posture" (p. 74); "Conveniences" (p. 75); "Working-Class Beauty" (p. 76); "In Foreign Parts" (p. 77); "Approximately" (p. 78); "Performances" (p. 79); "Unreasoned" (p. 80); "Guilt" (p. 81); "Submission" (p. 82); "Going Away" (p. 83); "Exiled Twice" (p. 84); "Evening" (p. 85); "Acrobat" (p. 86); "About Colours" (p. 87); "Lightness" (p. 88); "An Old Fisherman" (p. 89); "Leftovers" (p. 90); "Heat" (p. 91); "Unloading" (p. 92); "Barbershop" (p. 93); "A Fate" (p. 94); "After the Ceremony" (p. 95); "Recollection" (p. 96); "Race of Shadows" (p. 97); "First Pleasure" (p. 98); "The Wrath" (p. 99); "Necrography" (p. 100).

From Testimonies [Μαρτυρίες] C (1966-7): "Ancient Movement" (p. 103); "Around the Well" (p. 104); "Inactivity" (p. 105); "The Decline of Narcissus" (p. 106).

From Tanagra Women [Ταναγραίες]: "The Potter" (p. 109); "Way of Salvation" (p. 110); "Of the Sea" (p. 111); "Night Ritual" (p. 112); "Face or Façade?" (p. 113); "Prisoner" (p. 114); "Inventory" (p. 115); "Death at Carlovassi" (p. 116).

From Stones [Πέτρες]: "Unfinished" (p. 119).

From Repetitions [Επαναλήψεις]: "After the Defeat" (p. 123); "And Narrating Them ..." (p. 124); "The New Dance" (p. 125); "The Decline of the Argo" (p. 126); "Penelope's Despair" (p. 127).

From Railings [Κιγκλίδωμα]: "The Armchair" (p. 131); "Reconstruction of Sleep" (p. 132); "These" (p. 133); "Search" (p. 134); "Interrogation Offices" (p. 135); "Not at All Little" (p. 136); "The Girl Who Found Her Sight" (p. 137).

From Gestures [Χειρονομίες]: "In the Dark" (p. 141); "At Least the Wind" (p. 142); "Indisposition" (p. 143); "Before Sleep" (p. 144); "Enumeration" (p. 145); "Dissolution" (p. 146); "The Third One" (p. 147); "Inside and Outside the Window" (p. 148); "Reversal" (p. 149); "Awaiting His Execution" (p. 150); "White Landscape" (p. 151); "Departures, III" (p. 152); "Circle" (p. 153); "A Three Storey House with Basement" (p. 154).

From Corridor and Stairs [Διάδρομος και σκάλα]: "Athens 1970" (p. 157); "Inevitable" (p. 158); "In the Void" (p. 159); "Indiscreetly" (p. 160); "Panorama" (p. 161); "The Essentials" (p. 162); "Conscious" (p. 163); "Desertion" (p. 164); "Piraeus Detainees' Transport Section" (p. 165); "After the Trial" (p. 166); "Precautions" (p. 167); "The Meaning Is One" (p. 168); "Scene" (p. 169).

From Papermade [Χάρτινα] (1971) (pp. 171-176).

From Muffled [Υπόκωφα]: "Secret Guilt" (p. 179); "The Poet's Profession" (p. 180); "Concentration Camp" (p. 181); "The Unexpressed" (p. 182); "Wounded or Dead?" (p. 183); "The Necessary Exclamation" (p. 184);

The Dead House [Το νεκρό σπίτι] (pp. 185-207).

Biographical Note (pp. 209-212).

The introduction by Peter Bien can also be found in his Three Generations of Greek Writers. Introductions to Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Ritsos (Athens: Efstathiadis Group, 1983): 95-125 {3.775}.