Tag: Yannis Ritsos
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into the octaves part two
This post is the second of a short series of posts discussing some of the thinking and inspirations behind my latest poetry collection, An Empty Pot’s Darkness (Airlie Press), which is available on SPD (check out the first post here). Around the time of putting the early drafts of these sequences together, I remember having a conversation with a…
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* meditating with yannis ritsos
In my recent interview as part of my Distinguished Poet feature for The Inflectionist Review, I spend some time talking about the poet Yannis Ritsos and his poem “Protection” which I wrote about two years ago here. I feel that ever since discovering Ritsos’s work years ago I keep coming back. The most recent return has…
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* a meditation on brevity with paz, ritsos, & carruth
Writing – Octavio Paz I draw these letters as the day draws its images and blows over them and does not return It’s suiting to begin this meditation on brevity with Paz who once said that he admired the short lyric for being the hardest kind of poem to write. Anyone who’s worked out…
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* from hands to manos
This week’s post is a meditation on form via sharing some new publications. First, the good folks over at Rattle have recently shared the content of their Summer 2014 issue online which includes my own poem “Abandoned Church.” Rattle is unique in that they ask for some insight into the work via the contributor’s bio, which…
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* who we are & Yannis Ritsos
Protection – Yannis Ritsos The sky bends over us, responsible, as our poem bends over the sadness of mankind, as the sensitive, initiated eyelid bends over the eye, protecting the pupil of the eye from the dust, the improvised light, the hardly perceptible insects, so that the eyes may open again forewarned and free, each…
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* the friday influence
The sawdust that fell from your hair, I find in my poem today. (Monochord #330, Yannis Ritsos) *** For today’s Friday Influence, I present the work of the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos (1909 – 1990). The above is from a series entitled “Monochords” that was written in one month while in exile, August 1979. Reading…
The Friday Influence 