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A stunning collection that draws from four decades of verse by one of modern Greece’s most lauded poets

Trade Review
Received an honorable mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America

Praise for Michális Ganás:

“Throughout his poetry we find the dashed hopes and ideals of his youth transformed into a stifled cry in the confined, peripheral Greece of the neighbourhood, the café and the football pitch.”—Kostas Papageorgiou, in The Generation of the 1970s

“Ganás draws on the full resources of modern Greek poetry in order to create his own voice. To read him is to be inspired to reread a whole tradition through him.”—David Ricks, King’s College, London

“With formal modes ranging from the epigram to the folksong to the prose poem, Ganás creates clear images that seem to refer constantly to some unspoken truth.”—Dimosthenis Kourtovik

A Greek Ballad

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    A Hardback by Michalis Ganas, David Connolly, Joshua Barley

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/11/2019
      ISBN13: 9780300233346, 978-0300233346
      ISBN10: 0300233345

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A stunning collection that draws from four decades of verse by one of modern Greece’s most lauded poets

      Trade Review
      Received an honorable mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America

      Praise for Michális Ganás:

      “Throughout his poetry we find the dashed hopes and ideals of his youth transformed into a stifled cry in the confined, peripheral Greece of the neighbourhood, the café and the football pitch.”—Kostas Papageorgiou, in The Generation of the 1970s

      “Ganás draws on the full resources of modern Greek poetry in order to create his own voice. To read him is to be inspired to reread a whole tradition through him.”—David Ricks, King’s College, London

      “With formal modes ranging from the epigram to the folksong to the prose poem, Ganás creates clear images that seem to refer constantly to some unspoken truth.”—Dimosthenis Kourtovik

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