The Little Bear presents in its Essays series the book by Nasos Vagenas, "The Distortion of Karyotakis" in a second edition, enhanced with two additional studies ("Karyotakis and the Fifteen-Syllable" and "T.K. Papatsounis and the Avant-Garde").

In the texts that enrich the second edition, the observations referenced regarding the technique of Karyotakis's poetry, which were included in its first edition, are further developed.

Nasos Vagenas writes about Karyotakis's poetry: "Karyotakis's poetry is the poetry of the emotions of a singular human case, which manages to rise to an ontological level without the aid of its disconnection from a collective experience, as is the case with Seferis's poetry. Furthermore: it is the poetry of an expression that manages to provide a sense of poetic modernization akin to modernism, defying its traditional technique. How this happens is a marvelous mystery. In unraveling this complex mystery, those critics of Karyotakis who feel that the literary criticism of his work is something more than the expression of anti-Seferian sentiments should mainly direct their attention..."