The collected poems of Nikos Kavadias. Bilingual Edition

“Modern Greeks dominate the world’s merchant marine; ancient Greeks like Homer’s Odysseus sailed the Mediterranean and
beyond. But what do we know about shipboard life? Not much. Reading Kavadias fills this emptiness. He spent his adult life
sailing worldwide and writing poems about monsoons, cats dying on shipboard, masts snapping in two, ream-girls or
disgusting whores on shore, and fleas jumping off one’s pubic hair. […] Scrupulously translated, these accessible poems will
tell landlubbers a lot about life on the winedark sea.”

Peter Bien – Translator of Nikos Kazantzakis and Stratis Myrivilis