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Product details
- ISBN 9781597096126
- Weight: 159g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A History of Too Much begins with poems that address an Athens undergoing the first ravages of political and financial crisis; the inhabitants of these poems voice extravagant losses and the unpredictable, are often torn between a desire “to flee, but flee where?” The gods and goddesses will still be called upon, but Demeter is nonplussed in her mourning, Alexander the Great drunk, and the statues of antiquity exposed to the anarchies of spray-painted slogans and thrown Molotovs. If history’s excesses are exhausted they are also reinvented in the idiom of the contemporary moment; here where “the costumes were all off” and “the actors overplayed their parts,” there is a story to tell: “The light was almost gone, / the road now dark.”
Adrianne Kalfopoulou is the author of two collections of poetry, several chapbooks, and a book of essays, Ruin: Essays in Exilic Living, all from Red Hen Press. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including Duende, Superstition Review, Hotel Amerika, the Harvard Review online, Kindled Terraces, American Poets in Greece, Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis, and Borderlands and Crossroads; Writing the Motherland. She chairs the English program at Deree College in Athens, Greece.
