Epitaphios by Yiannis Ritsos Faber these poems explore the fragility

these poems explore the fragility of our relationship with the natural world

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Epitaphios by Yiannis Ritsos Faber these poems explore the fragilityOn 10 May 1936 the 27 year old Greek poet Yiannis Ritsos saw a newspaper photograph of a woman weeping over the body of her son, a Salonica tobacco factory worker killed by police during a strike. Two days later the Communist Party newspaper Rizospastis published a long poem by Ritsos. Dedicated to the heroic workers of Salonika and drawing on the fourteenth century Greek Orthodox Epitaphios Thrinos, the poem combines Mary's lament at Christs tomb