#kimon friar

[mournfulroses]

Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems,"

[majestativa]

Unlettered, the beautiful becomes monstrous.

— Nanos Valaoritis, Hired Hieroglyphs: Poems and Collages, trans by Kimon Friar, (1971)

[oldwinesoul]

—I. M. Panayotopoulos, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; "The Frozen Moon,"

[swordheld]

from the introduction to "the sovereign sun" selected poems by odysseus elytis, trans. and introduction by kimon friar. [id in alt text]

[daweyt]

Constantine P. Cavafy, from “Modern Greek Poetry; ‘The Bandaged Shoulder’”, tr. Kimon Friar.

[drolta]

Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems,"

[la-esthete]

- I.M. Panayotopoulos, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; "The Frozen Moon"

[rozieramati]

Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems"

[letsbeapoemtogether]

'To see the starry skies is a revelation'

Andreas Karandonis, tr. By kimon friar, from Modern Greek Poetry, "Availability,"

[89rooms]

Now that I have lost you, I feel my soul is like the snow that thaws on a sunless day,–bitter, unspeaking, ungoverned.

Pandelis Prevelakis - 'I Knew With You Those Quiet Hours,' Modern Greek Poetry, translation Kimon Friar

[mournfulroses]

Yannis Ritsos, trans. by Kimon Friar, from a poem featured in "Erotica: Love Poems,"

[alrederedmixedmedia]

Alredered Remembers George Bizos, Greek-South African human rights lawyer and author, on his birthday.

alredered-mixed-media.com

"What are your top three books?

Kimon Friar – Translation of Modern Greek Poetry

Leo Tolstoy – War and Peace

Victor Hugo – Les Miserables

[oldwinesoul]

If I touched you, if I kissed you limb by limb, I could teach you your body.

I. M. Panayotopoulos, tr. by Kimon Friar, Modern Greek Poetry; "The Frozen Moon"

[fading4real]

For a long time I've held you in my eye, and from all others have chosen you as if you were a star;

Angelos Sikelianos, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; "Sparta,"

[ablueorangeintheocean]

Lá fora, a última andorinha demorou-se até mais tarde, suspensa no ar como uma fita preta na manga do Outono, e nada mais ficou. Só as casas queimadas ardendo ainda em fogo lento.  Yiannis Ritsos em “Romiosini”

[davidhudson]

James Merrill, March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995.

1945 portrait by Kimon Friar.