Having published just three collections of poetry before he himself ended his life, Kostas Karyotakis (1896-1928) has been continuously present in modern Greek poetry, accompanying generations of readers to the present day and surviving in various ways in the consciousness of later poets.
This edition contains all the poems of Karyotakis' three collections, together with the translations added by the poet to the last two collections, which, indirectly illuminating his poetics, are an organic part of his work. Also included are the three poems that Karyotakis wrote in the last months of his life, as well as his prose, of which only one was published by the poet during his lifetime.