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This collection exults in images of luminous earthly beauty - a blue scarf lake, Greek bread that tastes of heaven and salt, cobbled streets shining like jet in the rain - that also hint at the inevitability of loss. In these poems, Potos prepares to watch her daughter leave home and then takes us with her and the daughter on her journey to Greece and into the mountains of her ancestors, where eventually they arrive to the ruin that was once the home of her beloved grandfather. There is a sense of resilience in the talismans she evokes - cut fresh lemons and olive oil, stars in the sky that light up the stones at night, and of course, the stones themselves - that image by image bring past and the present together to offer a deep sense of home. Andrea Potos lives in Wisconsin.
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About the Author
Andrea Potos is also the author of An Ink Like Early Twilight and We Lit the Lamps Ourselves, both published by Salmon Poetry, Yaya's Cloth published by Iris Press, and three chapbooks. Andrea received three Outstanding Achievement Awards in Poetry from the Wisconsin Library Association, the James Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review, and the William Stafford Prize in Poetry. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Andrea Potos's poems in A Stone to Carry Home are careful and tender, skillful and strong. She captures the poignant and inevitable separation of mother and daughter (Trying to Talk to My Daughter) and embraces her Greek heritage (My Grandfather's Home). She describes never so many mothers/steeped in the fresh/milk of each moment (In the Café Where I Write) and shares a blue and white flag answers the wind (At an Athens Window). You will find her word work wonderful. --Bruce Dethlefsen, Wisconsin Poet Laureate (2011-2012)
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- PublisherSalmon Poetry
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 191066992X
- ISBN 13 9781910669921
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages60
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