Winthropos : poems / George Kalogeris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalogeris, George, author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 106 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

""Winthropos," the title of George Kalogeris's new collection of poetry, comes from the "Greek-ified" name his father, an immigrant from Greece, gave to the blue-collar New England town where the family lived. Following in the spirit of his acclaimed Guide to Greece, Kalogeris conjures the town of Winthrop, Massachusetts, as a central locus of lyric and elegiac memory. While the poems often reach back into the Hellenic past for imagery and inspiration, they just as often reside in the American present of their conception. The author's grocer-father worries over his son possibly being drafted for Vietnam, standing at his butcher's block like a priest in Homer trying to read the gory entrails. Andy Williams singing "Moon River" in the family parlor evokes the River Lethe flowing halfway up a straw as a beloved Uncle Charlie lies dying in hospice. Speech class lessons with "Mrs. Sea Gull" (Mrs. Segal) reveal English diphthongs that are hard to pronounce, but "Thalassa" rolls off the speaker's tongue like pebbles on Winthrop Beach. Rich with classical allusion and tragic vision, including translations of Cavafy and Leopardi, "Winthropos" plumbs childhood memory and local custom in a work of meditative power and evocative beauty"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Talking to Myself About Poetry

Baby Monitor

Veil

Peponia

Reading ZH

Lethe

Weighing Grapes

Tantalus

Speech Class

Islands

Dandelions

Photograph Albums

My Photograph at Five

II. Saturday Night in the Village

III. Berlitz School of Language

On this Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year

Just My Imagination

Reciting Henry Vaughan in the MRI

On the Suffering of the World

Medicine Ball

Rilke Rereading Holderlin

Epithalamium: Thirty Years Later

Moon River

Swallow Song

The Golden Bough

IV. Hades

Hallucination

Love

Stele

The Horses of Achilles

Spring

Mimnermus (7th century BC)

Open Casket

Source of the Styx

Tonsils

At the Grave

Honey

V. Proteus in Winthrop

Lvov

Calchas Reading the Signs

Astoria

The Funeral Oration, 431 BC

Midnight Mass

RCA Victor

Pausanias (2nd century AD)

Mycenae Revisited

The Old Country

Mavro Daphne

VI. One-Credit Seminar on the Odes of Horace

93

First Steps

Resurrection

Holy Friday

Walk-In Freezer

My Guides

Horace in Athens

Wittgenstein

Daedalos

Birds in Cemeteries.

Other Format:

Online version: Kalogeris, George. Winthropos

ISBN:

9780807175675

0807175676

OCLC:

1226073750