In Secret Versions of Yannis Ritsos Author:Yannis Ritsos Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. He wrote in the face of ill health, personal tragedy, and the systematic persecution by successive hard-line, right-wing regimes that led to many years in prison. In Secret gives versions of Ritsos's short lyric poems: b... more »rief, compressed narratives that are spare, though not scant. They possess an emotional resonance that is instinctively subversive. The poems are so pared-down, so distilled, that the story-fragments we are given - the scene- settings, the tiny psychodramas - have an irresistible potency.« less