Exercises 1950–1960 Ruth Lasters maar wat is de positie

maar wat is de positie van de vrouw in deze maatschappij

Bekroond met de eerste prijs van De Grote Poëzieprijs Jongerenjury 2019

Her work appeared in seminal anthologies including Denise Riley's Poets on Writing (1992)

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Exercises 1950–1960 Ruth Lasters maar wat is de positieYannis Ritsos Yannis Ritsos wrote Exercises 19501960 after being tortured and detained during the Greek Civil War. Incredibly, the poems are filled not with bitterness but with amazementat a solitary leaf, a rope ladder, rose and grey light. Alongside such tenderness, of course, the nation state stretches out in the sun, teeth bared. What to say about the human condition? Not long after completing these poems, Ritsos was again imprisoned.