Exercises 1950–1960 Myung Mi Kim In a brand new poetics

In a brand new poetics of the transcendent domestic

She is an Associate Professor of English at Brown University

voorbij de oude hiërarchieën

the rhetorical and tonal range

the most daring is its no-holds-barred pursuit of love

Exercises 1950–1960 Myung Mi Kim In a brand new poeticsYannis Ritsos 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 imprisoned.