in this poem, but the reader seldom feels burdened by the litany of sorrows. An unlikely hope also abides for his people who have found another way to fight back; now they "load their guns just with their hearts". Truth and courage, [Yannis] Ritsos suggests, are always the most effective weapons against oppression and the landscape's silence.from Greekness
Part One
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: "Greekness"
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