Today, screenwriter and professor of film (and aficionado of all things Greek) Andrew Horton offers beautiful translations of two short poems by Greek poet Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990).
"When I write I always hear the casual and colloquial in my little noggin; I hope if any reader hears a voice in the poems they hear that too; I wish it to be an invitation of sorts. An idiomatic sing-song American vocab is what echoes down my halls." Michael Martin