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Title

Pomegranate seeds : an anthology of Greek-American poetry / Dean Kostos, editor.

Publication

Boston, Mass. : Somerset Hall Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kostos, Dean.

Description

299 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

From the Publisher: This volume is the first-ever collection of poems in English by 49 prominent Greek-American poets from throughout the United States. The poems cover a variety of topics and styles.

Subjects

• American poetry > Greek American authors
• Greek Americans > Poetry

Contents

• Preface -- Poet of the Diaspora -- Images -- Survivor -- Green prince -- Sad girl / Nicos Alexiou -- Monody -- Le Mot Juste at the Philadelphia Museum of Art -- Analyst's body ego / Manya Coulentianos Bean -- Wreath of desire -- Midnight moves / Dorothea Bisbas -- Iphigenia -- Kouros -- Center of the world -- Transformation / Lili Bita -- Memories of Aegina -- Sunset -- Seasons / Sevasti Boutos -- If you were born with the name Xidas -- Song of Icarus -- Naked asides: for Yannis Ritsos / John Bradley -- Road trip -- When Hermes whispers -- In the middle of the night -- Stay up with me -- Windshield wipers / Ioanna Carlsen -- Coins -- Kiss -- For the vessel within the vessel / Neil Carpathios -- Theseus: mythology of consciousness -- Defenseless city / Yiorgos Chouliaras -- Homeland / Kyriaki S Christodolou -- Mirologion from Kalamata / George A Christopoulos -- Ikaria -- There are no ploughs on Ikaria -- Those moments -- Ikaros / Constantine Contogenis -- Kassandra's story -- Amorous drift of the first Hoplite on the right wing -- Day of disembarkation -- Evening in Kingfisher / George Economou -- Killing time -- That woman said no -- Untitled / Eleni Fourtouni -- Spindlers -- To Balanchine / Emily Fragos -- Greek widows of America -- New Jersey-Penwell -- Pinball Purgatorio -- Siciliana of the Byzantine eyes / Dan Georgakas -- Kore -- Call -- Fotini / Faye George -- Summertime -- Astoria: Sestina / Aris Georgiadis -- Bell buried deep -- Re-turn -- Hollyhock love song -- Persephone of Demeter -- Demeter to Persephone / Veronica Golos -- Olive grove -- Ghazal -- Translucent homelands / M J Golias -- Poseidonians (fin de siecle) -- For Korinna (6th c BC) -- Dream of Penelope Delta -- Diver in love with oblivion / Stathis Gourgouris -- Night -- Gift of the Gods / Thea Halo -- Back home -- Point of honor -- Smoking villanelle -- Poor company / Nicholas Johnson -- In the cafe of strange skin -- Banaras is another name for the world -- Parthenogenesis -- On the death of Miltos Sahtouris -- Looking for my grandfather with Odysseas Elytis / George Kalamaras -- Dream -- Nostos -- Solitaire / Nina Karacosta -- Avenue "B" Rembetiko -- Exile -- Lipstick -- Lunching with Lola -- Prisoner of summer / Penelope Karageorge -- Waiting -- Syntagma 1967 -- At the Reichenberger Griechenbeisl -- Last months -- Elvira's lesson / E D Karampetsos -- Pasta flora -- Barba Kostas / Helen Dendrinou Kolias.
• Fortune told -- Litany of tears / Sofia Kontogeorge Kostos -- Introducing John L Sullivan / Dean Kostos -- Hades -- Memory tree -- When I was small -- Demeter in the deep north / Barbara Lekatsas -- Islander's autopsy / John Manesis -- Goddess -- Hansel in the cage -- Ophthalmology at dawn -- End of envy -- Boatman / Kathryn Maris -- Sun Moon Lake -- Unnatural tumbleweeds / Thanasis Maskaleris -- Greek lessons -- To love -- Hopper: rooms for tourists -- Chert -- Slate / Andriana Mastor -- Living next door to the center for cold weather -- Flowers -- Cleopatra Theodos -- Source / Cleopatra Mathis -- King -- Subterranean skies / Zaharati Morfesis -- Night plumber -- Writing poems on antidepressants -- How to write a poem after September 11th -- Pita bread -- Self-portrait with flowers / Nikki Moustaki -- Odysseus and Penelope secretly plot against the suitors -- Centaur prepares an emigrant for his journey abroad -- Emigrant sets out for America -- House in Vourliotes / Kostas Myrsiades -- Inherited memory of war -- Mavraki -- Valparaiso -- Night in Bellavista / Stephanos Papadopoulos -- Ghazal of Agapi -- Today -- Popped stitch / Andriana Rizos -- Family portrait -- You hold yourself proud / Helen Ruvelas -- Studio apartment -- September in Tharri -- Need for priests -- Approach -- Sound of my voice like a foreign language / Nicholas Samaras -- Cemetery in Kukuvaunes -- Only certainty -- Women at fifty / Minas Savvas -- Doug Craig -- Route Seven Riverlawn addition -- Sex -- Geometry / Hilary Sideris -- First Greek poem -- Footnote to the lambs -- Ikaria's tidepools / Eleni Sikelianos -- For Yiayia & Papou -- For Federico Garcia Lorca, "he died at dawn" -- Smoking reality through Cuban cigars in Key West / Diana Stamatelatos-Theocharis -- Address -- I told myself -- New moon -- Poem written standing and looking out the window / Tryfon Tolides -- End of August 2005 -- Smaller house -- All God's mail -- Labor Day, pen and spade -- Grandfather / Deno Trakas.

ISBN

• 9780977461042 (pbk.)
• 0977461041 (pbk.)

LCCN

2006102342

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library