Not So Ill with You and Me

<p>Fani Papageorgiou's collection <em>When You Said No Did You Mean Never? </em>(Shearsman Books 2013) won the Hong Kong Poetry Prize and has since been published in Spanish translation by Bartleby Editores Madrid. Her poems and book reviews have appeared in various magazines in the USA and the UK.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Comments on the author's previous collection:</p><p>The poems are intense but enigmatic as if they were seared in with a damaged branding iron. [...] Fani Papageorgiou's disconcerting and magnetic</p><p>first book ... reminds us (and as Dionne Warwick once observed) a house is not a home; it's always just a little unfamiliar just slightly beyond our</p><p>easy occupation. Which is precisely what draws us to the door to the briefly lighted windows. -David Orr <em>New York Times Book Review</em></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>I greatly enjoyed the mental acrobatics I had to perform in order to keep up with the leaps of imagination from one line to the next within the</p><p>poems. I look forward to reading more of Papageorgiou's work. -Dzifa Benson <em>Tears in the Fence</em></p>