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Safety Trip
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Publisher Price: $27.99
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
Published: May 17 2024
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Anna Papadopoulos speaks in the voice of the poet as the conscience of the society. She speaks for the children of the Robb Elementary School tragedy-Dark-soled shoe stains in the center / where we've left our marks. She grieves a child falling from an airplane leaving Afghanistan-A firefly flashes in the sky, will freeze / time like those stars that we can't see. She also explores her own immigrant experience: And we don't think about our old neighbors, who warned their kids about us: Don't they know-they're in America now. This is a poet who puts on the page what others are afraid to admit they are thinking, bearing witness in A Twenty-Three-Year-Old Dies Opening the Door. We live in unusual times-how easy it is to disappear / to lose focus like this pixelated face... Even so, she chooses to find beauty in the world. In A Warm February Day in New York, she continues to let the world speak to her and weave its magic: the sunset drops its pink hue like a crocheted baby's blanket. / The Verrazano Bridge's arches are sculpted in the shape of a woman's breasts. Anna Papadopoulos thinks deeply about everything and writes with power, depth and beauty.
-Diane Frank, Author of While Listening to the Enigma Variations: New and Selected Poems
Anna Papadopoulos's marvelous first chapbook, Safety Trip, embarks on a family's immigration adventure between the redefined worlds of exile and belonging. Traveling through generations, from World War II and the Greek Civil War to contemporary New York's lily blooming alongside a ditch, the poet understands how to recover ordinary beauty against the odds until you've worn / loss like your Sunday best. These personal stories reflect survival's human thread bearing the weight / between us in times of crisis and joy. Employing the acquisitive eye of a novelist with the lyrical inventions of a poet, Papadopoulos visually maps out an emotional space one can enter in any language and still call home.
-Elena Karina Byrne is the author of five poetry collections and programming consultant The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
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