Fugitive Train

From: Poetry | Date: May 1, 2008| Author: Stallings, A E | Copyright information

Fugitive Train A Levant Journal, by George Seferis. Tr. by Roderick Beaton. Ibis Editions. $16.95.

To Greek readers, George Seferis and Odysseus Elytis are the two modern poets. According to a poet friend, Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Constantine P. Cavafy - her own favorite - is a much less discussed third. While Seferis clearly has his American fans - I was surprised to discover that Stephen King's Salem's Lot has some epigraphs from his work - my sense is that in the us he is not nearl...

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