In Secret: Versions of Yannis Ritsos: A Version of Yannis Ritsos - Softcover

Ritsos, Yannis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907587217 ISBN 13: 9781907587214

Verlag: Enitharmon Press, 2013

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Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990) is one of Greece’s finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. Louis Aragon called him ‘the greatest poet of our age’. He wrote in the face of ill health, personal tragedy and the systematic persecution by successive hard-line, right-wing regimes that led to many years in prison, or in island detention camps. Despite this, his lifetime’s work amounted to 120 collections of poems, several novels, critical essays, and translations of Russian and Eastern European poetry.The 1960 setting, by Mikis Theodorakis, of Ritsos’s epic poem Epitaphios was said to have helped inspire a cultural revolution in Greece. In Secret gives versions of Ritsos’s short lyric poems: brief, compressed narratives that are spare, though not scant. They possess an emotional resonance that is instinctively subversive: rooted in the quotidian but at the same time freighted with mystery. The poems are so pared-down, so distilled, that the story-fragments we are given – the scene- settings, the tiny psychodramas – have an irresistible potency The Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for the Winter Quarter, 2012.

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Yannis Ritsos (1909–1990) is one of Greece’s finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. Louis Aragon called him ‘the greatest poet of our age’. He wrote in the face of ill health, personal tragedy and the systematic persecution by successive hard-line, right-wing regimes that led to many years in prison, or in island detention camps. Despite this, his lifetime’s work amounted to 120 collections of poems, several novels, critical essays, and translations of Russian and Eastern European poetry.The 1960 setting, by Mikis Theodorakis, of Ritsos’s epic poem Epitaphios was said to have helped inspire a cultural revolution in Greece. David Harsent has published ten collections of poetry, winning many awards including the Forward Prize. His collection, Night (Faber, 2011), won the 2012 Griffin International Poetry Prize, having been shortlisted for the Costa, Forward and T.S. Eliot awards. He also is a TV scriptwriter, and has published several crime fiction novels under pseudonyms.

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• Verlag: Enitharmon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1907587217
• ISBN 13: 9781907587214
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 79
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