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In Secret
Yannis Ritsos
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Paperback. Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. In Secret gives versions of Ritsos's short lyric poems: brief, compressed narratives that have an irresistible potency. Translator(s): Harsent, David. Num Pages: 79 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 114.
Winner Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Winter 2012. Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990) 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, ... Read more
Winner Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation Winter 2012. Yannis Ritsos (1909 - 1990) 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
79
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
79
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907587214
SKU
V9781907587214
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About Yannis Ritsos
David Harsent has published ten collections of poetry. Legion won the 2005 Forward Prize for Best Collection. His most recent collection, Night, published by Faber in 2011, was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize, the Forward Prize, the T.S. Eliot Award and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize.
Reviews for In Secret
'Harsent is one of those rare poets whose work commands attention outside the poetry world' THE GUARDIAN