{"product_id":"passion-maps-paperback-1","title":"Passion Maps - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdrianne Kalfopoulou\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePassion Maps\u003c\/i\u003e 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 journey 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, \u003ci\u003eWild Greens\u003c\/i\u003e, \"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrianne Kalfopoulou is the author of \u003ci\u003eWild Greens\u003c\/i\u003e, a poetry collection from Red Hen Press, and a prose memoir, \u003ci\u003eBroken Greek\u003c\/i\u003e. She has published two chapbooks, \u003ci\u003eFig\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCumulus\u003c\/i\u003e and various articles and essays. \u003ci\u003ePassion Maps\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353655263481,"sku":"9781597091589","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NdsARlYq399781597091589_619a75dd-b408-4c08-a1a5-b9c967fb9d7c.webp?v=1769825649","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/passion-maps-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}