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Ritsos in Parentheses (Paperback)
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Ritsos in Parentheses (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Perhaps Greece's most important poet, 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, 1975--represent a
thirty year poetic journey and a developing sensibility that link
the poet's subtler perceptions at different moments of his
maturity. In his introduction to the poems, and as an explanation
of the book's title, Edmund Keeley writes: "The two signs of the
parenthesis are like cupped hands facing each other across a
distance, hands that are straining to come together, to achieve a
meeting that would serve to reaffirm human contact between isolated
presences; but though there are obvious gestures toward closing the
gap between the hands, the gestures seem inevitably to fail, and
the meeting never quite occurs." In terms of the development of
Ritsos's poetic vision, the distance within the parenthesis is
shorter in each of the two earlier volumes than in the most recent
volume. There the space has become almost infinite, yet Ritsos's
powerfully evocative if stark landscape reveals a stylistic purity
that is the latest mark of his greatness. Originally published in
1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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