The selection of poems had been made by Athos Dimoulas in 1981, as soon as he fell ill ― intervening strictly, as he notes in his papers, mainly in his first six collections. He delayed the publication, however, in the hope of completing a few more poems, so as to add to the few included at the end of this volume, with the title he had already decided upon: ‘An Intention in Chaos’. It is my sole responsibility to keep the promise he asked of me in his final days: to see to the publication of his poems. So it was done, and I did not add to the anguish of one of his verses:
‘Who will become the keeper and guardian of his attention…’
From Kiki Dimoula’s note on the publication.
- Pages: 206
- ISBN: 978-960-7721-44-0
- Publication: 1999
- Dimensions: 14 x 21
- Categories: Literature, Books, Poetry
Athos Dimoulas
He was born in Athens in 1921. He studied at the National Technical University of Athens (civil engineering). He made his literary debut in 1951 with the book Poems, followed by the collections: New Poems (1951), Sonnets (1953), Untitled(1956), Orpheus and Other Poems (1958), Within (1960), This Reality and the Other (1961), On Memory (1964), Once and Elsewhere (1966), The Field of Fortune (1972), and The Fate of Destinies (1979). His complete work is collected in the volume The Poems (1951–1985), (Ikaros, 1999). He was married to the poet Kiki Dimoula, with whom he had two children and lived until his death in 1985.
