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Article: An Almost Pure Empty Walking.(Book review)
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- Harvard Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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An Almost Pure Empty Walking by Tryfon Tolides, Penguin Books, 2006, $16.00 paper, ISBN 9780143037095.
Winner of the 2005 National Poetry Series, Tryfon Tolides' debut collection, An Almost Pure Empty Walking, addresses a diverse set of themes ranging from the personal to the social, from loss and nostalgia to displacement and global conflict. Central to Tolides's poetry is the image of the Greek landscape. In a poem set in Mount Athos, a place in Northern Greece known as a site for religious pilgrimage, the beauty of the landscape creates a space within which the poet can cultivate his capacity for observation:
the Aegean
ripples with infinite small ...
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