“After the dictatorship, women were the ones insisting on drawing a parallel between the censorship of patriarchy and the censorship of authoritarianism. For them, poetry continued to be a forum where one explores what cannot be spoken. The Cake (consisting of twenty-four prose poems divided into six sections) is a transitional work that marks the shift from poetry to prose. It is the most explicitly feminist work by Galanaki to date.”
KAREN VAN DYCK (Professor of Modern Greek Literature at Columbia), Hesione and the Censors in Greek Poetry 1967-1990, Agra 2002.

The Cake (1980) is the only work of mine that focuses exclusively on a personal story and is entirely devoted to it, whereas usually my "self" is filtered through other characters, other times, and other stories in my books. It represents my first step from short epigrammatic poems to narrative poetry, a style that I also adopted two years later in Where Does the Wolf Live?.

The reissue of The Cake coincides with the fifty-first year of my continuous presence in literature, since the publication of my poetry collection Besides Joyful in 1975.