Full of wit and wonder these prose poems meditations and narratives open onto rare and unexpected vistas of history and myth language and the art of writing.. . .one of the most distinguished and enigmatic of modern Greek poets full of Platonic wisdom. His originality of temperament is a most singluar thing. . . .his new book is splendid. amp151Lawrence DurrellThe purpose of the book is twofold first to revise certain aspects of nationalist modernism and secondly to radicalize Greek modernism by undermining continuity and tradition. . . . Valaoritiss revision primarily concerns the continuity and validity of tradition as expressed in the myth of Greekness. ampmdashPanayiotis Bosnakis Journal of Modern Greek StudiesNanos Valaoritis was born in Lausanne Switzerland in 1921 of Greek parents. He has lived in Athens Paris and the United States. One of Greeces most distinguished contemporary writers he is the author of novels plays and poetry and was twice awarded the Greek national poetry prize.