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In Three Sea Stones, a first-generation daughter reaches out toward the earth of her ancestors. The resonant poems in this short collection grow out of a lyrical response to the natural world and are also a crystallization of fleeting intuitions, sensations, and perceptions that evade language. The poet is also a filmmaker and her work lingers in the space between image and word. These poems are meant to serve as portals to some glimpsed beauty and wholeness.

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"""Three Sea Stones is a beautiful book. The lines are tense with immediacy and the suggestion of vast distances. Behind the urgencies of a fully-realized individual life, the depths of history. And like Char and Ponge, the poet cares about words as things in themselves, in the architecture of the natural world. The poems are landscapes and the landscapes are poems."" -D. Nurkse, author of A Country of Strangers, and Love In the Last Days about Memento Tsunami: ""This book is breathtaking and reads as a sustained filmic meditation on the woman artist, ancestry, the immigrant daughter's unfixed, hyphenated identity.""-Aliki Barnstone, author of Dwelling and Bright Body ""These poems never say a word too much, but their language, by turns wry and musical, playful and gorgeous, is not minimalist at all. They are at once precise and vivid. They speak with an elliptical urgency.""-James Richardson, author of By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms ""The poems in Vasiliki Katsarou's Memento Tsunami, sparse to the eye but richly rewarding to the ear and spirit, may be aptly described by a line from the book's title poem: ""vintage baubles of love."" Moving easily among Greek myth, world cinema and the varieties of personal experience, Katsarou's poems are at once playful in wordplay and rhyme (""Against an unknowing blue sky/ bodies fly--/rhubarb pie, green swing, bee sting--"") and poignant in subject matter (""Father Tongue,"" ""Greek Family Myth""). Elemental in emotion and elegant in craft, Vasiliki Katsarou's Memento Tsunami rewards the reader as Ithaca rewarded Odysseus: after a winding journey, an island one can call home."" -R.G. Evans, author of Overtipping the Ferryman"

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Vasiliki Katsarou, poet, editor, publisher, and filmmaker, is the author of the full-length collection, Memento Tsunami, and a chapbook, The Second Home. She is also an editor of two contemporary poetry anthologies: Eating Her Wedding Dress, A Collection of Clothing Poems and Dark as a Hazel Eye, Coffee & Chocolate Poems. Her poetry has been published widely and internationally, and also in Greek translation. A Geraldine R. Dodge poet in New Jersey, she often collaborates with visual artists. She is a founder of two popular community poetry reading series, and a teaching artist at Hunterdon Art Museum.

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