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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 was translated by Kimon Friar and Kostas Myrsiades and published by BOA in 1989, and serves as a monumental volume that represents 50 years of this gigantic poet's work.

Books by Yannis Ritsos

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W.D. Snodgrass

The author of nineteen collections of poetry, W.D. Snodgrass’ first collection of poems, Hearts Needle received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. Often credited with…

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Fall Book Bundle

Welcome Fall Book Bundlers! With this purchase you will receive a box with all titles from Boa's current fall season along with a few…

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Boa Book Lovers Subscription

Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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An Orchard in the Street

This collection of brief fictions by award-winning author Reginald Gibbons explores human experience and memory in ordinary settings—city apartments, rural roads, soap operas, and…

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Bone Symphony

Michelle Phương Hồ’s Bone Symphony mines the wreckage of colonialism and imperialist warfare in Vietnam and attempts to reassemble the bones. Told in three movements…

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Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee

Signed copies available in limited quantities The interviews with major award-winning poet Li-Young Lee in Breaking the Alabaster Jar offer access to the poet's…

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Before and After the Fall

Written between 1985 and 1994, these poems record what Sándor Csoóri has called "the chronic memory of violence," namely the horrors of World War…

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Slope of the Child Everlasting

Signed copies available in limited supply The poems in Laurie Kutchins' new collection sustain the lyric and imagistic sensibility of her last book, The…

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The Hymns of Job

Maya Bejerano has said that "Writing is a kind of pretending." That "Poetry gives verbal attire to an elusive and dark world. It's a…

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