[Nikiforos Vrettakos]. Thirty Years in the Rain: The Selected Poetry of Nikiforos Vrettakos. Translated by Robert Zaller and Lili Bita. Boston, MA: Somerset Hall Press, 2005. 95 p.

ISBN 0972466134 pbk; 9780972466134

Contains: Zaller, Robert. "Introduction" (pp. 9-16); Bita, Lili. "The Mystery and Alchemy of Translation" [The Alchemy of Translation and an Encounter with Vrettakos] (pp. 17-19).

I. "Sunrise at Sounion" (p. 23); "Remaking" (p. 24); "Loneliness Doesn't Exist" (p. 25); "Letter" (pp. 26-27); "Thinking of You" (p. 28); "Address to a Peace Conference" (p. 29); "Epitaph on the Wind" (p. 30); "Expulsion" (p. 31); "Thirty Years in the Rain" (p. 32); "The Rock and the Hawk" (p. 33); "Journey to Sicily" (p. 34); "The Child from My Lai" (p. 35); "The Trains" (p. 36); "It's Getting Dark" (p. 37); "The Dinosaurs" (p. 38); "Liberation" (p. 39); "The Empty Word" (p. 40); "The Sun and the Soldier" (p. 41); "Chorale" (p. 42); "The Hawk" (p. 43); "Stone Petals" (p. 44); "An Eagle" (p. 45); "Revolution" (p. 46).

II. "The Perforated Hands" (p. 47); "Without You" (p. 48); "The Green Garden" (p. 49); "Balance" (p. 50); "I Came to the Harbor" (p. 51); "Interval" (p. 52); "Infusion" (p. 53); "Inexplicable" (p. 54); "Voices" (p. 55); "Love" (p. 56); "The Cistern" (p. 57); "Trees and Conscience" (p. 58); "The Peace of Creation" (p. 59); "Watching" (p. 60); "Permanent Residents" (p. 61); "The Family Gathering" (p. 62); "The Olive Picker" (p. 63); "Chaos" (p. 64).

III. "The Seven Elegies" (pp. 65-68).

IV. "Evening Confessions" (p. 69); "The Horizon and the Stone" (p. 70); "Dialogue to the End" (p. 71); "Tree Planting" (p. 72); "Seminar" (p. 73); "Sleep" (p. 74); "Exploratory Operation" (p. 75); "The Grace of the Archangel" (p. 76); "Poetry and Life" (p. 77); "Ascent" (p. 78); "Poetry" (p. 79); "Creation" (p. 80); "All I've Said" (p. 81); "Time's Retreat" (p. 82); "Accomplished" (p. 83); "Apologia" (p. 84); "When She Saw Me…" (p. 85); "The Sledge" (p. 86); "We Are…" (p. 87); "Beside the Others" (p. 88); "The Last Lesson" (p. 89); "Epilogue" (p. 90); "Epilogue" (from Liturgy under the Acropolis) (pp. 91-92); "Monologue" (p. 93).

About the Translators (p. 95).

Note: The book does not clarify the meaning of the subdivisions I-IV or from which of the (many) collections of Vrettakos the poems have been taken.