Yannis
Ritsos is one of Greece's most prolific, distinguished and
celebrated poets whose many honors include the Alfred de Vigny
Award (France, 1975) and the Lenin Prize (U.S.S.R., 1977).
Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems 1938-1988 features more than 440
poems from 43 of Ritsos' short and long poems by the editors,
an index of 117 of Ritsos' books of poetry, translation, fiction,
essays and drama, and more than 25 illustrations based on Yannis
Ritsos' celebrated paintings on rocks. The work of 17
translators, Yannis Ritsos: Selected Poems 1938-1988 is a monumental
volume that generously represents 50 years of this gigantic
poet's work.
Unaccomplished
Clouds
on the mountains. Who is to blame? What is to blame?
Silent,
tired,
he looks
ahead, turns back, walks on, stoops.
The stones
are below, the birds are above. A pitcher
on the
windowsill. Thorns in the fields. Hands in his pockets.
Pretenses,
pretenses. The poem is slow in coming. Emptiness.
The word
is marked by what it must pass over in silence.
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Cloth
ISBN: 1-880238-44-6
Price: $30.00
Publishing Date: January 1989
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ISBN: 1-880238-45-4
Price: $22.00
Publishing Date: January 1989
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