Paperback
Ritsos’s parentheses: a strained yearning for connection, never quite met.
Save 5%
RRP$34.99

$33.16

  • Paperback

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    30 June 2026

Check Delivery Options

Summary

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 h…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780691284552
ISBN-10:0691284555
Author:Yannis Ritsos, Edmund Keeley
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Imprint:Princeton University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:30 June 2026
Weight:268g
Dimensions:22mm x 140mm x 216mm
Series:The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
A-Format
B-Format
Ritsos in Parentheses by Yannis Ritsos - ISBN: 9780691284552
140 × 216 mm
C-Format
A4
mm / in
About The Author

Yannis Ritsos

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.

Edmund Keeley (1928–2022) was a distinguished translator of modern Greek poetry and professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Princeton University.

Returns

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.