Vassiliki Rapti. Transitorium: [Poems by Vassiliki Rapti]. Foreword by Stamos Metzidakis; Comments by Vrasidas Karalis. [Cover artwork by Nancy Exarhu]. Boston, MA: Somerset Hall Press, 2015. [Bilingual edition]. 97 p.

ISBN 9781935244134 pbk

The acknowledgements (pp. 7-8) include appreciation toward the members of the Advanced Training in Greek Poetry Translation and Performance Workshop at Harvard and to all members of the 9th Paros International Poetry Translation Workshop.

Contains: Metzidakis, Stamos. "Foreword" (pp. 9-10); Karalis, Vrasidas. "Comments" (pp. 11-12).

Poems [in bilingual presentation]: "Wild Thyme and Tortoise Shell…" (pp. 14-15); "Rock Paper Scissors!" (pp. 16-17); "Stone" (pp. 18-19); "The Chemistry of Bodies and Souls", trs. Lily Exarhopoulou, Chloe Koutsoumbeli, Angelos Sakkis, and Vassiliki Rapti (pp. 20-21); "Empedocles", trs. Andreas Triantafyllou and Vassiliki Rapti (pp. 22-23); "Brazen Tongues" (pp. 24-25); "Autochthonous Colors" (pp. 26-27); "Fatal" (pp. 28-29); "Spleen" (pp. 30-31); "As Tears Go By… " (pp. 32-33); "What……. Then?" (pp. 34-35); "W...h...y…?" (pp. 36-37); "Trauerspiel (Mourning Play)" (pp. 38-39); "Poplar Tree", trs. Angelos Sakkis and Chloe Koutsoumbeli (pp. 40-41); "Hippokampe's Howling" (pp. 42-43); "Cardiac Facilities" (pp. 44-45); "Needles" (pp. 46-47); "Thus She Briefly Gazed" (pp. 48-49); "Si loin si proche", trs. Siarita Kouka and Vassiliki Rapti (pp. 50-51); "4 Seasons", trs. Lily Exarhopoulou, Chloe Koutsoumbeli, Angelos Sakkis, and Vassiliki Rapti (pp. 52-55); "The Gourds of Seferis" (pp. 56-57); "Dǒng / bù dǒng* (I know / I don't know)" (pp. 58-59); "Two Salamanders" (pp. 60-61); "The Trills of Light" (pp. 66-67); "[En]thymeme", tr. Petros Georgiou (pp. 68-69); "Awakening", tr. Petros Georgiou (pp. 70-73); "Sapphic" (pp. 74-75); "The Dancer at the Seashore" (pp. 76-77); "On the Pretty Lemon Tree and the Wild Goat" (pp. 78-79); "On the Orange Trees" (pp. 80-81); "Eternity" (pp. 82-83); "Inside the Mind" (pp. 84-85); "Freedom/L" (pp. 86-87); "Ahna: For 'Ahna' by Stratis Haviaras" (pp. 88-89); "Epithalamion", trs. Helen Dimos, Julia Dubnoff, Athena Papachrysostomou, James N. Stone, and Vassiliki Rapti (pp. 90-91).

"Transitorium: In Memoriam, March 22, 2014" (p. 92) [multilingual]; Stephen Mooney, "Transitorium: From the original by Vassiliki Rapti" (p. 93) [in English].

The identified translators are named on p. 97.

The following poems are admittedly written first in English and therefore are not indexed in the CENSUS: "Sunburnt" [originally written in English] [tr. into Greek by Iossif Ventura] (pp. 62-63); "De-Ontological" [originally written in English] [tr. into Greek by Iossif Ventura, Vladimir Boskovic, and Vassiliki Rapti] (pp. 64-65).

*The vowel of 'dong' is a special Unicode character with an inverted carat.