Holst-Warhaft, Gail. The Fall of Athens. Burlington, VT: Fomite, 2016. 283, [9] p.

ISBN 9781942515401 pbk

A kind of memoir, in which people such as Mariza Koch, Mikis Theodorakis, Iakovos Kambanellis, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke and Dionysis Savvopoulos play a big part. Next to poetry of the author (in English) the book includes poems (in bilingual versions) of the following: Giannis Ritsos, Three sections of his Epitaphios, tr. Gail Holst-Warhaft (pp. 44-46); Nikos Gatsos, "Rosewater" (pp. 58-59); Nikos Kavvadias, "To My Horse" (pp. 137-139); "Gabrielle Didot" (p. 141); "Letter to the Poet Kaisar Emmanuel" (pp. 146-147); from "Armida" (p. 150); from "Southern Cross" (p. 151); from "Woman" (p. 152); "Fata Morgana" (p. 153); from "Mal du départ" (p. 155); all tr. by Gail Holst-Warhaft; Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, from Contrary Love: "The Cicada" (pp. 212-213); "The Heat" (pp. 214-217); "Matchsticks" (pp. 218-219); from The Suitors: "The Third Summer — the Catastrophe" (pp. 220-225) [no tr. mentioned]; and C.P. Cavafy, "Waiting for the Barbarians" (pp. 198-201); "Che fece … il gran rifiuto" (p. 273); "In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C.", tr. Gail Holst-Warhaft (pp. 280-283).