This volume contains translations of two late collections by
Odysseas Elytis (Nobel Prize for literature, 1979). According to
the official announcement of the Swedish Academy, the Nobel Prize
was awarded to Elytis "for his poetry, which, against the
background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and
intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom
and creativeness." The Oxopetra Elegies, which he published in
November 1991 at the age of eighty, was immediately hailed as one
of his finest works. Far from being a dialogue with death, as many
critics hastily concluded, these elegies are laments for what is
seen and perceived in certain "timeless moments" that, like the
Oxopetra headland, project into the beyond, into another reality,
revealing truths that, to the poet's constant dismay, remain
"unverifiable" and "unutterable." The poems here function as a
"contemporary form of magic," a key opening the portals to this
other reality, at least for those who speak Elytis' language: the
language of the Secret Sun. In West of Sorrow, published in
November 1995, only months before his death, it becomes even
clearer that his poetry remains, as it always was, a paean to life
and love and beauty.
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