An Almost Pure Empty Walking (National Poetry Series)

By Tryfon Tolides

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143037099
• ISBN13: 9780143037095
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.9" x 6.0" x 0.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher