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050	0	0	_aPA5629.I7 _bA24 1991
082	0	0	_a889.1 RIT
100	1		_aRitsos, Giannes _d, 1909-1990
240	1	0	_aPoems. Selections.
245	1	0	_aYannis Ritsos _b: repetitions, testimonies, parentheses _c/ translated by Edmund Keeley
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. _b: Princeton University Press _c, c1991.
300			_axxviii, 238 p. _c; 23 cm.
440		0	_aPrinceton modern Greek studies
500			_aTranslation of: Epanalepseis. Martyries. Kinklidoma.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-235).
520			_aThe celebrated modern Greek poet Yannis (Giannes) 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 simple things 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--but the poems also provide lyrical and idyllic interludes, along with cunning re-creations of Greek mythology and history. This collection of Ritsos's work--perhaps most of all those poems written while he was in forced exile under the dictatorship of the Colonels--testifies 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.
650		4	_aGreek poetry
650		4	_aPoetry _x--Translation into English
700	1		_aKeeley, Edmund
942			_cMO
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