Winthropos

Download or read book Winthropos written by George Kalogeris and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Winthropos, the title of George Kalogeris’s new poetry collection, 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 Winthrop, Massachusetts, as a central locus of lyric and elegiac memory. While the poems in Winthropos reach back into the Hellenic past for imagery and inspiration, they often reside in the American present of their conception, forging childhood memory and local custom into a work of meditative power and evocative beauty.