1991 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year--"Choice." "Friar and Mysiades deserve much credit for providing, in one volume, the first full-range sampling of this fecund, variegated, and highly original poet in English."--"The New Republic"[...]
"Without Ritsos' eloquence, Greeks would have forgotten how to name all those things that are there before their eyes."--Pantelis PrevelakisThis long poem is a nuanced and moving account of the poet's time in exile, in which everyday events hide much that is threatening, oppressive, and spiritually [...]