Mike Kly is an American writer who is Greek: this is how he presents the man to whom this volume is dedicated, Dinos Siotis, one of those who speak about his work.

Without a doubt, Edmund (Mike) Kly, well-known to the broad Greek public as a translator of our literature into the English language, is difficult to define unambiguously: with one identity and one 'nationality.'

For many years now, he has been dynamically and actively defining his own world, his own 'homeland,' which is much richer, much more fertile than the individual homelands that comprise it.

Edmund Kly's world encompasses both America and Greece; it transcends them: it is time, language, sounds, anxieties, history, and art; it is also their myth and history together.

Writer, translator, academic teacher, critic, essayist are some of the facets of the man to whom we, poetry and prose in particular, owe a great deal.