Description
Poetry. "Of the many good things I could say about these beautiful poems, the one I want to sing the loudest is that each presents a secret of some kind: the surprising cargo on a ship in the harbor, the ancient ruins under a modern village, the sailors in a herd of swine. This is what true poets do; they show you the world inside the world. The hero who hides a Jew from the Nazis, the face of old Agamemnon on the surface of the moon: reader, these and other treasures await you."—David Kirby
Author Bio
Since 2009 John Tripoulas has served as the general surgeon on the Greek island of Ikaria, where his father and paternal grandparents were born. John was born and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, but as a teenager attended high school in Athens, Greece. He graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in English literature and subsequently received an MD from Athens University Medical School. His maternal grandfather was the Greek poet and Olympic athlete Demetrios Golemis, whose poems John has translated into English in a volume titled Demolished Souls (Cosmos Press, 2011).
Author City: LOVELAND, OH USA