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In Katerina Anghelaki-Rookeís poetry the body, myth, the soul, nature and language are deeply entangledconcepts. Yet her poetry is passionate and direct: ëI am not interested in distorting reality when I play with language.í

With translations by such notables as Kimon Friar and Rae Dalven as well as the editor, this is the most complete picture yet of this major Greek poet.

"Everywhere there is a passionate intensity, a consuming and communicating energy that are remarkable even in translation."
Glyn Pursglove, Acumen

"This is the first time that a volume intended to be representative has been assembled and published by a mainstream poetry publisher. Karen Van Dyck has done a splendid job of assembly. A particular excellence of the volume is that the translations are by several different hands, of both genders and of at least three generations. As a result, a single voice emerges clearly throughout the volume."
Roderick Beaton, Anglo-Hellenic Review, Spring 2009

Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (the second part of her surname is her late English husbandís) was awarded the Greek National Poetry Prize in 1985 and the Greek Academyís Poetry Prize in 2000. She was born in Athens in 1939; her godfather and earliest encourager was the poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis.

She is fluent in English, French, and Russian and is an acclaimed translator of, among others, Seamus Heaney and Alexander Pushkin. She lives partly in Athens, partly on the nearby island of Aegina.

Karen Van Dyck is the Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Literature and the Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies at Columbia University. Her publications include Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry since 1967; The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding: Three Collections by Contemporary Greek Women Poets; and the co-edited anthology, A Century of Greek Poetry,1900-2000. She is now compiling the Norton
anthology of Greek Poetry with Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas and Edmund Keeley.