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Passion Maps : Poems by Kalfopoulou, Adrianne is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 stassisa transliterated Greek word for a stop or a pausethat 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 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

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Author

Kalfopoulou, Adrianne

Publisher

Los Angeles: Red Hen Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781597093637

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.8 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14