"Traverso: the position of a ship when it sails at reduced speed, as it receives the wind or wave from the side. Oblique, transverse."
Traverso is the third poetry collection by Nikos Kavvadias and was first published in 1975 by Kedros Publications (14 reprints until 1989) and, from April 1990 to February 1997, 9 times by Agra Publications.
The collection is dedicated to Filippos Chatzopoulos and contains two poetic sections, Traverso and Filippos' Tales.
It is adorned with a frontispiece by Giannis Moralis.