Exercises 1950–1960 by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Spring Ulmer scottish including Time to Get Here:

including Time to Get Here: Selected Poems 1969-2002 (Salt

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Exercises 1950–1960 by Yannis Ritsos, translated by Spring Ulmer scottish including Time to Get Here:Published 1st November 2025. Yannis Ritsos wrote Exercises 19501960 after being tortured and detained during the Greek Civil War. Incredibly, the poems are filled not with bitterness but with amazementat a solitary leaf, a rope ladder, rose and grey light. Alongside such tenderness, of course, the nation state stretches out in the sun, teeth bared. What to say about the human condition? Not long after completing these poems, Ritsos was again