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ancient Greece
Antigone
Author_George Kalogeris
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families
Greek Americans
Greek culture
Greek food
Greek traditions
Harry Agganis
modern Greece
Odysseus
Onassis
Product details
- ISBN 9780807168417
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 03 Dec 2018
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the tradition of second-century writer Pausanias, George Kalogeris offers a series of meditative poems on his Greek heritage, both through the intimate lens of his upbringing and the vast historical view of the country's great literature and philosophy. Kalogeris's Guide to Greece is a warm and personal collection that ambitiously ties the diaspora of Greek people and ideas into a single literary experience. The struggles of a displaced, working-class family, in turn, give rise to musings on Antigone and Odysseus. Ancient Greek heroes inspire considerations of modern-day greats, such as billionaire Aristotle Onassis and baseball player Harry Agganis. Mirroring the familiar yet mythic call of the Aegean Sea, these poems at once evoke vivid childhood memories and provide new explorations of time-honored epics.
George Kalogeris is associate professor of English Literature and Classics in Translation and is co-director of the Poetry Center at Suffolk University in Boston. His previous books include Camus: Carnets, a book of poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus, and Dialogos: Paired Poems in Translation. He lives in Winthrop, Massachusetts.
