An Almost Pure Empty Walking
Fiction & Literature, Poetry, Continental European, Inspirational & Religious
| Author: | Tryfon Tolides | ISBN: | 9781440627064 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group | Publication: | June 27, 2006 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Tryfon Tolides |
| ISBN: | 9781440627064 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Publication: | June 27, 2006 |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Language: | English |
In his debut collection, chosen by Mary Karr as a winner of the 2005 National Poetry Series, Tryfon Tolides weaves together poems that speak of desire, loss, and small joys. Tolides was born in a tiny village in Greece and his work is rooted in the mountains and wind and the deep interior of that place; his poems express a longing and a searching for peace, for home, for beauty, for escape. These poems constitute a lament, whether they concern themselves with the difficulties of assimilation or the question of whether it is possible for people to live with one another in a spirit of true understanding. They prove that the physical and the metaphysical can share residence, can even be one and the same.
In his debut collection, chosen by Mary Karr as a winner of the 2005 National Poetry Series, Tryfon Tolides weaves together poems that speak of desire, loss, and small joys. Tolides was born in a tiny village in Greece and his work is rooted in the mountains and wind and the deep interior of that place; his poems express a longing and a searching for peace, for home, for beauty, for escape. These poems constitute a lament, whether they concern themselves with the difficulties of assimilation or the question of whether it is possible for people to live with one another in a spirit of true understanding. They prove that the physical and the metaphysical can share residence, can even be one and the same.
