The award-winning poet Stratis Paschalis selects and translates Poems for love and affection. Poems from the old times like the full-bodied deep red wine. From the archaic era to our times. From Sappho to Rempoy. From famous and unknown poets. Love in its broadest form. Affection in its deepest expression. Love between man and woman, love of friendship, love for the other, love for our other half. Desires, pleasures, delights, and then the price, painful but blessed. Bonding, giving, sharing, and then the bloody rift of loss. All dedicated to the side of goodness.

All born out of the sense of longing and melancholy. And other poems, for the myths of love and the magical moments of legend and imagination. Where the gods desire mortals, and tragic heroes pay for their fateful passions. But also verses about the Love of God and the Muses.
I included poems that I had translated over time and others that I translated specifically for this edition. Only two translations are by Palamas and Karyotakis, famous and unique.