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On 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Thessaloniki tobacco-factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos. Dedicated…
Summary
On 10 May 1936 the 27-year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Salonica tobacco-factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos. Dedicated ‘to the heroic workers of Salonika’ and drawing on the fourteenth-century Greek Orthodox Epitaphios Thrinos, the poem combines Mary’s lament at Christ’s tomb with popular …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780992740962 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0992740967 |
| Author: | Yiannis Ritsos |
| Publisher: | Smokestack Books |
| Imprint: | Smokestack Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 60 |
| Release Date: | 10 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 84g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 130mm x 197mm |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
130 × 197 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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