With the book "Marc Chagall in Greece - Poems," the great artist presents us with the other side - the poetic side - of the same coin, as he was both a painter-poet and a poet-painter.

This edition is a first worldwide presentation of the poems of the great painter in translation.

Also noteworthy is the fact of the first worldwide publication of an unpublished sketch by the great artist, which he created in Poros during his first visit to Greece in 1952.
Also, for the first time in Chagall's work, the characterization of the period 1952-1980 as the "Greek Period." Indeed, during these approximately 30 years, Chagall painted all his works with Greek themes: Poros, but mainly figures and events from Greek antiquity, which highlight, in all their grandeur, Chagall's ideas about Greek humanism. This edition includes 17 sketches by the great painter, a characteristic sample of that era.

The original French edition was published in 1975 by Editions Cramer, and besides the 41 poems written by the great painter from 1909 to 1950, it also includes 24 woodcuts by him and constitutes the second part of the book.

In the first pages of the book, one can find a photograph of Marc Chagall in front of the Acropolis in 1952 (copyright Marc & Ida Chagall, Paris).
The preface of the volume is written by Meret Mayer-Graber, granddaughter and heir of Chagall, and the foreword is by the academic Dimitris Mytaras.

... Don't look for me today or tomorrow
I have gone far away from myself
I am
In a pool of tears...