Argonauts

George Seferis, born in Smyrna in 1900, received the 1963 Nobel Prize for Literature. A career diplomat for the Greek government, he published nine collections of poems and six books of prose, and is well known for his Greek translation of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. He died on September 20, 1971, in Athens. “Matthew Paschalis” is a moniker he used to describe himself in his writing.

George Kalogeris teaches English literature and Classics in Translation at Suffolk University. He is the author of a book of paired poems in translation, Dialogos (Antilever, 2012), and a book of poems based on the life and notebooks of Albert Camus, Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer, 2006). His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason (Waywiser, 2010; selected by Christopher Ricks). (updated 10/2016)