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paper \u2022 80 pages \u2022 16.95
ISBN: 978-1-954245-08-2
eISBN: 978-1-954245-15-0
February 2022 \u2022 Poetry<\/p>\n
Add to Cart<\/a><\/p>\n [\/column]<\/p>\n [column col=”3\/4″]<\/p>\n PLEASURE is a book-length poem which muses on the phenomenology of solitude in a pastoral landscape, written in a diaristic, lyric mode, where the queer \u201cI\u201d alternately savors the decadence of isolation and stands at the precipice of despair. A travelogue in verse, PLEASURE takes place in Syros, the Greek island to which author Angelo Nikolopolous travels a few weeks after the discovery of his mother\u2019s brain tumor. These intertextual, elliptical explorations of solitude and sensuality interweave images of seaside roaming, secluded town life, and ephemeral sexual encounters with the ubiquitous implication of death\u2014the waning summer, the ill, perhaps dying, mother. Staring down true disconnection\u2014both physical and psychic orphanhood\u2014Nikolopoulos writes about the thrill and sadness of turning your back against the world and those in it only to rediscover that which tethers all to human experience: the quotidian, singular pleasures of having a body.<\/p>\n BEYOND LANGUAGE<\/p>\n A row of seven cypress trees, religiously tall, Why seven? Why have you come here? Mrs. Ioanna says opening the balcony door. I came to test whether it\u2019s true\u2014PLEASURE<\/h1>\n
Angelo Nikolopoulos<\/h2>\n
Reviewed in\u00a0Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/a><\/h5>\n
hedges the field below, itself in turn
water-hedged by mineral coastal blue.<\/p>\n
Not another soul<\/em> for miles.
You will find much beauty here<\/em><\/p>\n
Beneath the field, though I\u2019ve yet to see it,
a cliff points over the craggy shore.<\/p>\n
if the best things happen to you when you\u2019re alone.
Maybe in the end you\u2019ll find nothing useful here<\/em>,<\/p>\n