I've checked his Selected Poems 1938-1988 but couldn't find these. Must
be new.
Walter
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> Oh, I particularly like the first poem, Jon. Are these from a collection?
> Andrew
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> 2009/3/9 Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Two poems by Iannis Ritsos
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>> (tr. from the Greek by Nikos Stangos)
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>> Approximately
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>> He picks up in his hands things that don’t match – a stone,
>> a broken roof-tile, two burned matches,
>> the rusty nail from the wall opposite,
>> the leaf that came in through the window, the drops
>> dropping from the watered flower pots, that bit of straw
>> the wind blew in your hair yesterday – he takes them
>> and he builds, in his backyard, approximately a tree.
>> Poetry is in this ‘approximately’. Can you see it?
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>> Around the well
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>> The thee women sat around the well holding their pitchers.
>> Big red leaves fell on their hair and shoulders.
>> Someone hidden behind the plane-trees threw a stone.
>> The pitcher broke. The water did not spill; it remained standing,
>> all shining, looking towards where we were hiding.
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