Hard for the word to travel from blood to poem.
—Yannis Ritsos, Monochords (Tavern Books, 2017), translated by Paul Merchant.
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The old woman came from Myli with a basket of tomatoes so she could enter my poem.
--Yannis Ritsos, from "Monochords," translated by Paul Merchant
In Pieces: an anthology of fragmentary writing, edited by Olivia Dresher, Impassio Press 2006.
The old woman came from Myli with a basket of tomatoes so she could enter my poem.
--Yannis Ritsos, from "Monochords," translated by Paul Merchant
In Pieces: an anthology of fragmentary writing, edited by Olivia Dresher, Impassio Press 2006.
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