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The celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis Ritsos follows such distinguished predecessors as C. P. Cavafy and George Seferis in a dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The shorter poems gathered in this volume present what Ritsos calls 鈥渟imple things鈥� that turn out not to be simple at all. Here we find a world of subtle nuances, in which everyday events hide much that is threatening, oppressive, and spiritually vacuous鈥攂ut the poems also provide lyrical and idyllic interludes, along with cunning re-creations of Greek mythology and history. This collection of Ritsos’s work鈥攑erhaps most of all those poems written while he was in forced exile under the dictatorship of the Colonels鈥攖estifies to his just place among the major European poets of this century. The distinguished translator of modern Greek poetry Edmund Keeley has chosen for this anthology selections from seven of Ritsos’s volumes of shorter poems written between 1946 and 1975. The collection thus covers thirty years of a poetic career that is the most prolific, and among the most honored, in Greece’s modern history.

Awards and Recognition

• Edmund Keeley, Winner of the 2000 Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, PEN American Center