Late Into the Night: The Last Poems of Yannis Ritsos

by Yannis Ritsos, Martin McKinsey (Translator), Martin McKinsey (Introduction)

Overview

The last poems of this 20th-century Greek master are tinged with sadness and loss, but they also, in their candidly poetic reporting of the life and world around him, hum with vitality and an odd note of hope. Ritsos felt defeated in his own health and politics, but as a poet he experienced a surge of creativity that is fascinating to follow in its chronology and exactitude.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780932440716
Publisher:	Oberlin College Press
Publication date:	05/20/1995
Series:	FIELD Translation Series , #21
Edition description:	Trans. from the Modern Greek
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION • I. THE NEGATIVES OF SILENCE • Misguided Pursuits • Back Then • Bitter Knowledge • Forgetfulness • Intimations • The Uninvited • Closing Words • Perhaps • The Crazy • Incident • Minimal Harvest • Hypothermia • Escape • Tokens • Denouement • Pointless Lucidity • Conversions • Harsh News • Pilgrimage • Homeland • Hour of Anonymity • Post Script • Not Quite • Another Summer • People and Suitcases • The Latest Word • A Pillar • What Cannot Be Weighted • Topography • Strange Dream • Two in the Afternoon • II. THE BARE TREE • Useless Keys • On Silence • The Other Fear • Depletion • The Statues and Us • From Another Time • Garden in Autumn • Sluggishness • Sparse Leavings • Work Table • Self-Knowledge • Sitting Out the Rain • Painting Stones • III. LATE INTO THE NIGHT • Inertia • Same as Ever • Nothing • The Sound of the Bell • Trifles • Good Luck • Balance • Last Minute Diversions • The Nails • Evacuation • Naught • The Everlastings • The Trial • Until One Night • The Original Position • Stages of Weariness • In the Garden • Innocence • Changes • Tonight • Traffic • Privileged • Wrong Number • A Flowershop • And the Poem • Turned Soil • The Black Boat • IV. TICKS OF THE CLOCK • V. BOAT WHISTLES • The Last Summer

Editorial Reviews

The last poems of this major Greek poet are tinged with sadness and loss, but they also hum with vitality and an odd note of hope. “Late Into the Night, for all its painful candor, is a wonderful coda to a long and prolific career.”—Virginia Quarterly Review

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