In Secret by Yannis Ritsos
Yannis Ritsos (19091990) 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.
'Harsent is one of those rare poets whose work commands attention outside the poetry world' THE GUARDIAN
This is David Harsent's fifth volume of poems and the first new collection since Mr Punch in 1984. He has recently become well-known aas the author of the opera libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's Gawain. Other books by Harsent include A Violent Country, After Dark, Dreams of the Dead and Selected
Poems.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781907587214 |
| ISBN 10 | 1907587217 |
| Titel | In Secret |
| Autor | Yannis Ritsos |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Enitharmon Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2012-10-16 |
| Seitenanzahl | 79 |
| Preise | Commended for Poetry Book Society (PBS): Choice - Winter 2012 |
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