The Black Sea: poems

In this third collection of poems Papadopoulos addresses the historical subject of the Pontic Greek massacre in the 1920's in a series of “sonnet-monologues” that link cinematically to create a very specific, semi-fictional account of a group of people living within this particular historic context.**His own**Greek family is of Pontic and Cretan origin, and he traveled the black sea extensively while writing these poems, but the abstracted landscapes and the slightly “grotesque” characters ...