Ritsos in Parentheses

Ritsos in Parentheses - Paperback

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Ritsos in Parentheses - Paperback

Ritsos in Parentheses - Paperback

by Yannis Ritsos
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Book Overview

by Yannis Ritsos (Author), Edmund Keeley (Translator)

Winner of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Academy of American Poets

A bilingual edition of three major poetry collections by one of the most important Greek poets of the twentieth century

One of the most prolific and popular of modern Greek poets, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The three volumes of Ritsos's poetry translated here--Parentheses, 1946-47, Parentheses, 1950-61, and The Distant--document a three-decade poetic journey that reveals the evolution of the poet's sensibility. This bilingual edition also features an insightful introduction from translator Edmund Keeley, whom Paul Muldoon has called "the gold standard in translators of Greek poetry."

Author Biography

Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990) was a Greek poet who was imprisoned and exiled and had his works banned in his home country because of his Communist politics. His books include The Fourth Dimension and Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses (both Princeton). Edmund Keeley (1928-2022) was a distinguished translator of modern Greek poetry and professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Princeton University.

Number of Pages: 208
Dimensions: 0.48 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: March 24, 2026
ISBN9780691284552
Author Yannis Ritsos
PublisherPrinceton University Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2026
LanguageENG- English
Pages208
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

Related Subjects

Literary Criticism Nonfiction Poetry

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