Ritsos in Parentheses
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2026
Summary
Perhaps Greece’s most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life.
The three volumes of Ritsos’s poetry translated here – Parentheses, 1946-47, Parentheses, 1950-61, and The Distant, 1975 – represent a thirty-year poetic journey and a developing sensibility that link the poet’s subtler perceptions at different moments of his maturity. In h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691284552 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691284555 |
| Author: | Yannis Ritsos, Edmund Keeley |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 268g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation |
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Yannis Ritsos
Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990) was a Greek poet who was imprisoned and exiled and had his works banned in his home country because of his Communist politics. His books include The Fourth Dimension and Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses.
Edmund Keeley (1928–2022) was a distinguished translator of modern Greek poetry and professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Princeton University.
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