Karyotakis Selected Poems LIFE IS AN ENDLESS NIGHT

Some poets write about darkness. Karyotakis lived inside it.

In 1928, at the age of thirty-two, Karyotakis walked to a quiet stretch of coastline, lay down beneath a eucalyptus tree, and ended his own life. He left behind an enigmatic death letter and a body of work that has haunted Greek literature for nearly a century — the work of a man who wielded despair like a scalpel, cutting through loneliness, love, and the quiet hypocrisies of modern life.

Life is an Endless Night brings his most pi...