NMLP P-010242 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

Turning Point (Στροφή / Strophi)

George Seferis (Giorgos Seferis / Georgios Seferiadis) · Printed at the author's own expense in Athens (the imprint commonly cited is the Estia printing house / Typografeion tis Estias); confirm the printer on the copy in hand · 1931

No book-club-edition tradition applies to this Greek modernist material. The real traps are (1) later Athens reprints and the revised/expanded settings Seferis authorized over the decades — later Ikaros collected-poems printings (Poiimata) are common and are NOT the 1931 first; do not confuse the 1931 Strophi with its later second edition or its reappearance inside collected editions; and (2) the English-language volumes (the 1946 Rhodes pamphlet, the 1948 Lehmann King of Asine, the 1960 Warner Poems, the Princeton Keeley–Sherrard), which are translations and must never be represented as the true first however handsome the copy.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-010242 for "Turning Point (Στροφή / Strophi)" by George Seferis (Giorgos Seferis / Georgios Seferiadis) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-010242, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).