Perfect Order

The first major English selection of this exceptional Greek poet spans thirty-six years, covering a varied poetic career--from the first registration of his "identity" as a highly original, international modernist and a leading member of the "Generation of the Seventies"--to the recent sonnets honoring writers he loves.

Nasos Vayenas was awarded the Greed National Poetry Prize in 2005. He was born in 1945 in the northern Greek town of Drama, and studied at the universities of Athens, Rome, Essex and Cambridge, where he wrote his acclaimed thesis on George Seferis, published in Greek in 1979. Since 1992 he has been Professor of Literary Theory and Criticism at the University of Athens, where he lives. Richard Berengarten is a poet and university teacher who lives in Cambridge, England. Paschalis Nikolaou lives in Corfu, where he teaches translation at the Ionian University.