[Yiannis Ritsos]. Peculiar Gestures: Collection of Poems by Yiannis Ritsos. Edited, Translated and with Commentary by Minas Savvas. With an Introduction by Vasilis Vasilikos and an Essay from Louis Aragon. Astoria, NY: Seaburn Publishing Group, 2002. 112 p. Partly bilingual edition.

ISBN 1885778953; 9781885778956

The poems have previously appeared in Subterranean Horses (Athens, OH, 1980) {4.3954} and Chronicle of Exile (San Francisco, 1977) {4.3907} and are so ordered herein, on pp. 4-51 and pp. 52-111. For the titles of the individual poems see, respectively, entries 4.3954 and 4.3907.

Contains: Savvas, Minas. "Remembering Yiannis Ritsos" (pp. 4-11); Vassilikos, Vassilis. "Introduction" (p. 12). Selection of poems (without mention of the collections they come from) (pp. 13-51).

Aragon, Louis. "The Greatest Living Poet" (pp. 53-55); "Translator's Introduction" (pp. 56-61).

A selection of poems from the collections: Chronicle of Exile I, II, and III (Ημερολόγια εξορίας), The Wall in the Mirror (Ο τοίχος μέσα στον καθρέφτη), Testimonies (Μαρτυρίες), Smoked Earthen Pot (Καπνισμένο τσουκάλι), Corridor and Stairs (Διάδρομος και σκάλα), Summer Preparatory School (Θερινό φροντιστήριο) (pp. 62-111).

In the second part of the book some poems are printed bilingually: "The soldiers, unshaven..." / «Οι στρατιώτες στο πεζούλι...» (p. 77); "Satisfaction" / «Ικανοποίηση» (p. 79); "With Such Simplicity" / «Με τόση απλότητα» (p. 81); "Elegy" / «Ελεγείο» (p. 83); "The Besieged and the Besiegers" / «Ο πολιορκημένος κ᾿ οι πολιορκητές» (p. 87); "Reflections" / «Αντανακλάσεις» (p. 100); "Fundamental Difference" / «Θεμελιώδης διαφορά» (p. 103).