{"product_id":"in-secret-book-yannis-ritsos-9781907587214","title":"In Secret","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49736417214737,"sku":"NGR9781907587214","price":15.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50279522664721,"sku":"GOR007737896","price":10.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50402040643857,"sku":"CIN1907587217G","price":12.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51857288691985,"sku":"GOR012325867","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1907587217.jpg?v=1750931603","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/in-secret-book-yannis-ritsos-9781907587214","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}