The award-winning poet Stratis Paschalis selects and translates. Poems about love and affection. Poems of the old times like rich deep red wine. From the archaic era to our times. From Sappho to Rimbaud. From famous and obscure poets. Love in its broadest form. Affection in its deepest version. Love between a man and a woman, love of friendship, love for the other, love for our other half. Desires, pleasures, delights, and then the painful yet blessed price. Bonding, giving, sharing, and then the bloody rupture of loss. All dedicated to the side of good. All drawn from the sense of longing and bittersweetness. And other poems, about the myths of love and the magical moments of legend and fantasy. Where gods desire mortals, and tragic heroes pay for fatal passions. But also verses about the Love of God and the Muses. I included poems that I had translated from time to time and others that I translated specifically for this edition. Only two translations are by Palamas and Karyotakis, renowned and unique. (from the book's preface)