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Passion Maps

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

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English
Red Hen Press
15 February 2019
Passion Maps is a lyrical cartography of historical and biographical experiences, of the poet's lived and imagined mappings. The poems in this collection chart a world itinerary of stopping places, or stassis--a transliterated Greek word for a stop or a pause--that transport the reader from locations of childhood memory to pauses of lost love, and lost life, through landscapes as disparate as Vietnam, Greece, New Jersey, and the Balkans. As poet and critic Joseph Powell described Kalfopoulou's first collection, Wild Greens, ""the best of these poems make beauty ache"", a phrase used by Frost to describe Yeats' poetry; of this new collection Powell notes a range of ""different types of utterance, of poems ambitious and experimental in a volume that is tough, tender and honest throughout.""

As Passion Maps suggests, these are poems of experiences that have mapped, as much as experiences that have become maps; there are the inevitable first cartographies of family: a father ""stoic/ in brutal combat"", a mother who ""would have preferred to sing her words"" that expand into the broader mappings of ""bygone lives, /"" and ""the lyric ruin of cities"", an America of ""New World opportunity"" and an old world of ""whole towns ow erased by the grass."" In his review of Wild Greens in the Crab Orchard Review, Jon Tribble describes the ""bitter and the sweet"" of poems that ""test our palates"" and ""remind us that the bread and meat and fruits and greens of life come with many flavors and at a cost that is as dear as it is worthwhile."" The same could be said of Kalfopoulou's second collection though here we have the voice of a poet who has broadened her style to include more of the world.
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Imprint:   Red Hen Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 228mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   159g
ISBN:   9781597091589
ISBN 10:   1597091588
Pages:   104
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Adrianne Kalfopoulou is the author of Wild Greens, a poetry collection from Red Hen Press, and a prose memoir, Broken Greek. She has published two chapbooks, Fig and Cumulus and various articles and essays. Passion Maps is her second collection of poems. She taught at the University of Edinburgh's international summer school program for several years and in various writing workshops in Greece. Currently she is an Assistant Professor at Hellenic American University in Athens where she developed the general education program and teaches literature.

Reviews for Passion Maps

Passion Maps is an exceptional collection, filled with wholly original poems that are fresh, sensual, and beautifully realized. The collection is thoughtful, smart, and moving. It's poems like At the Edge of the World, The Border, The Evening Drink, or Stassi Ecclesia that remind us why we read in the first place: to be delighted, to be changed. Jeffrey Levine


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