A Broken Man in Flower: versions of Yannis Ritsos by David Harsent Raymond Miller Faisal Mohyuddin’s debut collection speaks

Faisal Mohyuddin’s debut collection speaks to the desire to forge a wholeness in a world that seems

One of the most important debut collections for a generation

The Feeling Sonnets are written in an English that is translingual not only because it engages other languages but also because it reflects upon itself in uncertainty as if it were the work of a language learner

but a fact in the interior life of a poet

Beginning in the slate waters of the north

A Broken Man in Flower: versions of Yannis Ritsos by David Harsent Raymond Miller Faisal Mohyuddin’s debut collection speaksYannis Ritsos (190990) is generally considered to be along with Cavafy, Seferis and Elytis one of the most significant Greek poets of the last century. His life was, to say the least, troubled. From an early age, he was dogged by the tuberculosis that killed his mother and brother. His father and sister suffered breakdowns and spent time in institutions. His poem Epitaphios (1936), a lament for a young man shot dead by the police during a tobacco