tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7726714502729587105..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Yannis Ritsos: Supplementary Acquisitions Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80970363505303044132012-11-02T06:25:49.193-07:002012-11-02T06:25:49.193-07:00L'Enfant,
Many thanks for this -- sad passing...L'Enfant,<br /><br />Many thanks for this -- sad passing, but it is important that those who have contributed to the things we value be acknowledged.<br /><br />My college Greek teachers came out of that Princeton program. Their instruction was inspiring. There are lineages.<br /><br />Here's the clickable link to that obit.<br /><br /><a href="http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/trenton/obituary.aspx?n=mary-stathato-kyris-keeley&pid=160697525#fbLoggedOut" rel="nofollow">Mary Stathato-Kyris Keeley</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57629315987881824262012-11-01T14:56:18.487-07:002012-11-01T14:56:18.487-07:00Mary Stathato-Kyris Keeley
Obituary
http://obits.n...<br />Mary Stathato-Kyris Keeley<br />Obituary<br />http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/trenton/obituary.aspx?n=mary-stathato-kyris-keeley&pid=160697525#fbLoggedOutL'Enfant de la Haute Merhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122358316297267842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34136737065250376862012-10-29T10:46:58.741-07:002012-10-29T10:46:58.741-07:00I was not free.
Nobody else
spoke up.
I was not ...I was not free.<br />Nobody else <br />spoke up. <br />I was not really alone.<br />I went along<br />with the others<br />acted older <br />all grown up.<br />That's what they wanted.<br /><br />I drew a little face<br />for them to see<br />right where they would sit.<br />It was a mirror. It was devilish<br />later erased.<br />Now it speaks.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39759245381713073762012-10-28T22:32:53.277-07:002012-10-28T22:32:53.277-07:00This poem was writ during the ten-year dictatorshi...This poem was writ during the ten-year dictatorship of Colonel George Papadopoulos, a period during which the poet suffered much. As a longtime Communist, he was arrested immediately after the 1967 coup, sent to an island prison camp; and thence to another. There followed hospitalization in Athens, and then, in 1968, exile, under house arrest at his wife's home on the island of Samos (she was a practising physician there). He was permitted to return to his Athens apartment in 1970. It was during these latter years that this poem was written.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70379779984078392162012-10-28T12:09:59.246-07:002012-10-28T12:09:59.246-07:00interesting poem..."clandestine sky"...I...interesting poem..."clandestine sky"...I am thinking about that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6736918199040438002012-10-28T12:06:26.105-07:002012-10-28T12:06:26.105-07:00Ritsos was the first poet I totally fell in love w...Ritsos was the first poet I totally fell in love with. I was working at a bookstore--13 or 14 years old I'd guess. His book didn't sell, so the shop keeper gave it to me. I love how he ends his poems--as if he is always pulling me back into the poem, just as I think I am leaving . . . <br /><br />as he left, almost arrogantly,<br />one could hear something like the sound of cloth ripping (a strange sound):<br />a corner of the flag was held back, trapped by the god's foot.Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28904173518166711312012-10-28T10:37:12.867-07:002012-10-28T10:37:12.867-07:00One can never get enough of this great poet.One can never get enough of this great poet.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15211839983220342722012-10-28T08:30:43.243-07:002012-10-28T08:30:43.243-07:00Tragic way for a creative soul to go.
Beautiful pa...Tragic way for a creative soul to go.<br />Beautiful paintings and words. Soothing on the eye after burning the candle late last night.Jonathan Chanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60147650421812203362012-10-28T06:54:19.181-07:002012-10-28T06:54:19.181-07:00A murder mystery? where the suspense is all with ...A murder mystery? where the suspense is all with the reader and the victim only becomes aware of his dying as his life ebbs. There seems to be more "redemption" in this story than the Thomas. I get the sense that there is release here from a certain tawdriness of existence .... The beginning part to me is like an assemblage of key stills from a film noir. The ending like a cheaply made set that our main character is finally set free from ...Dalriadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12004167335881293080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60837294177251798132012-10-28T06:33:27.493-07:002012-10-28T06:33:27.493-07:00The great Greek poet Ritsos has been an honoured g...The great Greek poet Ritsos has been an honoured guest here before:<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/yannis-ritsos-marpessas-choice.html" rel="nofollow">Yannis Ritsos: Marpessa's Choice</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/yannis-ritsos-time-dimension.html" rel="nofollow">Yannis Ritsos: The Time Dimension</a><br /><br />And this one was posted in different two takes (other voices, other rooms, different conversations):<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/yannis-ritsos-in-depths.html" rel="nofollow">Yannis Ritsos: In the Depths</a><br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/yannis-ritsos-in-depths-you-cant-take.html" rel="nofollow">Yannis Ritsos: In the Depths (You Can't Take It With You)</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com