Haris Vlavianos. Affirmation: Selected Poems 1986-2006. Translated from the Greek by Mina Karavanta. Foreword by Michael Longley. Dublin: Dedalus, 2007. vi, 84 p.

ISBN 1904556655 pbk; 9781904556657 pbk

Contains: Foreword by Michael Longley (pp. iii-vi).

I. [From] The Diary of a Poem: "An Evening without an Eve" (pp. 3-4); "Affirmation" (pp. 5-7); "Contemplating the Object" (pp. 8-10); "The Poem of an Other Poetics" (Variation) (pp. 11-12); "The Archaeology of a Morning" (pp. 13-14); "Who?" (pp. 15-16); "Temperate Memory" (p. 17); "Unwritten" (p. 18); "Vous êtes plus beaux que vous ne pensiez" (p. 19); "Silence" (pp. 20-22); "The Veil" (p. 23).

II. [From] In the Arcades (of History): "The Angel of History" (pp. 27-29); "August Meditations" (pp. 30-31); "Hotel Insomnia" (pp. 32-33); "Pascal's Will" (pp. 34-35); "Autumnal Refrain" (pp. 36-37); "Sonnet" (pp. 38-39); "De Imagine Mundi" (pp. 40-41); "Esthétique de la Beauté" (pp. 42-43); "New Realism" (pp. 44-45).

III. [From] Adieu: "Apologia Pro Vita Mea" (pp. 49-50); "Sturm und Drang" (p. 51); "Descent" (pp. 52-54); "Pietà" (pp. 55-56); "Pentimento" (pp. 57-60); "Gloriana" (pp. 61-62); "Our Face" (pp. 63-64); "In Triumph" (pp. 65-66); "A Woman with a Past" (pp. 67-70); "Closure" (pp. 71-75).

IV. A Brazilian Tale (Poema de dez faces) (pp. 79-82).

Notes (p. 83); About the translator (p. 84).