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One of the most prolific and popular of modern Greek poets, 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鈥檚 poetry translated here鈥�Parentheses, 1946鈥�47, Parentheses, 1950鈥�61, and The Distant鈥攄ocument a three-decade poetic journey that reveals the evolution of the poet鈥檚 sensibility. This bilingual edition also features an insightful introduction from translator Edmund Keeley, whom Paul Muldoon has called 鈥渢he gold standard in translators of Greek poetry.鈥�