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Book Title
Diaries of Exile
Publication Name
Diaries Of Exile
Title
Diaries Of Exile
Author
Yannis Ritsos
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1935744585
EAN
9781935744580
ISBN
9781935744580
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Collections
Release Date
08/01/2013
Release Year
2013
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.5in
Item Length
7in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Publication Year
2013
Topic
European / General, General, Poetry
Item Width
6in
Number of Pages
146 Pages

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Harrowing, sorrowful poems written in prison by one of Greece's most important twentieth-century poets.

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Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
1935744585
ISBN-13
9781935744580
eBay Product ID (ePID)
114198659

Product Key Features

Book Title
Diaries of Exile
Author
Yannis Ritsos
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
European / General, General, Poetry
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
146 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pa5629.I7
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"Ritsos' breath raises a wind in which wafted and swirled flakes from the crust of our land, seeds of its vegetation and sparks of its sky. Without Ritsos' eloquence, Greeks would have forgotten how to name a major part of all those things that are there before their eyes and restoration of his work to its totality is an imperative duty to the Greek nation itself, which deserves to regain its unity after nearly forty years of strife." -- Pantelis Prevelakis "Myth in Ritsos' works on three main levels reflecting the historical background, personal memory and contemporary social problems. Due to the symbolic weight that the myth carries, it enriches the psychological truth of the real-life persons that the poet carries within, as he also carries the emotional weight of a childhood destined to crumble under disease, disaster and grief." -- Chrysa Prokopaki "Ritsos writes of seasons shifting to reflect a coming darkness. The bitter desolation that is war. Hard, sharp, hostile words that paint a time too painful to remember and yet which must be written." --Cathi Shaw "...[H]is poems lack the compliance of subjugation and the often wounded indulgence of a narcissistic persona. What they do exhibit however, is the very authentic human endeavour of striving, reaching... imagining, and somehow, against all odds, assimilating the dissonance of an encountered self in the midst of upheaval through what he had to intuit as a metaphoric fall from grace despite his religious denouncements. This desire for a unitary reality is the value I see, feel, and admire in his work. Ritsos was a poet who lived in chaotic but exciting times, and like Odysseus, was fated by the gods to take the scenic way home. I am awed by the integrating expanse of his gaze and by the process of his mind that was able to distinguish between reality and its representation... and also... also by the sense-memory in things he projected–things lost–but still things yet to be gained. He was a poet who survived the enchantment of rival impulses, as well as a poet who celebrated the sacred return of the imagination out of the deep ocean that contained him." -- Ilya Tourtidis "...Ritsos is always Ritsos. He suffered much personal and public violence, in the autocratic Greece of the 20th century, but his poems resist judgment. They flower with the force of humility and pathos. We readers are his brothers and children and comrades, under the hot sun which is and is not a god, beside the 'endless sea.' Love trumps Death. Every object is awake. 'Every hour is our hour.'" -- John Wall Barger, There is no pity in the book, nor resignation, despite the circumstance. That clarity ... has to do with giving witness, with the idea of poetry as testimony. Ritsos records the smallest moments, as if were he to leave out a single detail of his incarceration, the whole experience might disappear. This is what poetry can do: preserve the moments that would otherwise be forgotten, and in so doing, recreate the world. -LA Times Ritsos' breath raises a wind in which wafted and swirled flakes from the crust of our land, seeds of its vegetation and sparks of its sky. Without Ritsos' eloquence, Greeks would have forgotten how to name a major part of all those things that are there before their eyes and restoration of his work to its totality is an imperative duty to the Greek nation itself, which deserves to regain its unity after nearly forty years of strife. -Pantelis Prevelakis, There is no pity in the book, nor resignation, despite the circumstance. That clarity ... has to do with giving witness, with the idea of poetry as testimony. Ritsos records the smallest moments, as if were he to leave out a single detail of his incarceration, the whole experience might disappear. This is what poetry can do: preserve the moments that would otherwise be forgotten, and in so doing, recreate the world. --LA Times Ritsos' breath raises a wind in which wafted and swirled flakes from the crust of our land, seeds of its vegetation and sparks of its sky. Without Ritsos' eloquence, Greeks would have forgotten how to name a major part of all those things that are there before their eyes and restoration of his work to its totality is an imperative duty to the Greek nation itself, which deserves to regain its unity after nearly forty years of strife. --Pantelis Prevelakis
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2012-035405
Dewey Decimal
889.134
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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