Winthropos

<p><em>Winthropos</em> the title of George Kalogeris's new poetry collection comes from the Greek-ified name his father an immigrant from Greece gave to the blue-collar New England town where the family lived. Following in the spirit of his acclaimed <em>Guide to Greece</em> Kalogeris conjures Winthrop Massachusetts as a central locus of lyric and elegiac memory. While the poems in <em>Winthropos</em> reach back into the Hellenic past for imagery and inspiration they often reside in the American present of their conception forging childhood memory and local custom into a work of meditative power and evocative beauty.</p>