The Black Sea : poems / Stephanos Papadopoulos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Papadopoulos, Stephanos, 1976-

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 55 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Rhinebeck, NY : The Sheep Meadow Press, [2012]

Summary:

...One day all the scattered boats that line the harbor will sink with hulls rammed full of holes through which the moon will shine its cargo on the cold sea bed where nothing moves.

In this third collection of poems Papadopoulos addresses the historical subject of the Pontic Greek massacre in the 1920's in a series of "sonnet-monologues" that link cinematically to create a very specific, semi-fictional account of a group of people living within this particular historic context. His own Greek family is of Pontic and Cretan origin, and he traveled the Black Sea extensively while writing these poems, but the abstracted landscapes and the slightly "grotesque" characters that inhabit these poems lead anyone, regardless of his/her knowledge of the region, into a new and intimate relationship with this volatile and tragic story. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Poet 3

Melanthe Speaks to God 4

Voices 5

An Oval Photograph 6

Rain Over Trabzon 7

Aristoteles' Jeremiad 8

The Circassian Whore 9

The Dead Speak to the Passing Traveler 10

Alekos 11

The Pasha's Lament 12

The Black Sea History 13

The March from Harpoot to Malatia 14

Amisos 15

Sarvas on the White Horse 16

The Poet in the Harbor 17

Aristotélis Sings his Testament 18

Melanthe Speaks of Marriage 19

The Brothers Long March 20

Old Aristotelis Speaks from the Café 21

The Burned Fields at Samsun 22

Melanthe Speaks of Her Long March 23

Alekos Remembers Smyrna 24

Stavros, Couturier 25

The Ghosts of the Open Fields 26

Postcards from Russia 27

The Pasha Can't Sleep 28

The Circassian Whore Recounts Her Dream 29

Walking to Sebasteia 30

Captain Markos 31

Roads 32

The Pasha Summons the Circassian 33

The Lost Armies 34

Thalassa 35

Brothers 36

Alekos and the Pilgrimage to Sumelá 37

The Monk Visits the Abandoned Monastery 38

The Window's Song 39

The Admiral Visits the Circassian 40

The Refugees 41

The Caterpillars 42

The Farm Ghost 43

The Admiral Recalls 44

Captain Markos Stays Behind 45

Stavros, Pater Familius 46

Melanthe Peeling Onions 47

Aristoteles on Love 48

Stavros in Paris 49

Aris 50

The Pasha's Last Days 51

The Garden 52.

ISBN:

9781937679095

1937679098

OCLC:

785870527