Christopher Bakken is department chair and Frederick F. Seeley Professor of English at Allegheny College. He is the author of the poetry collections After Greece and Goat Funeral. He is also co-translator of The Lions' Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrik
"Eternity & Oranges is a beautifully crafted book of apprehensions,
the apprehensions chiefly of death as furnished by sea, love,
politics, and separation. It moves through Greece and the Balkans
watching scenes darken and divide. The unsaid haunts the book with
its degrees of saying. It is what the skin of poetry is for: to
contain the flesh and nerves while bearing whatever life inflicts
on it."
--George Szirtes
"This is a beautiful collection of poems: half-cryptic, half-open;
half based on ancient myths, half on actual life. There's almost
always Greece as the backdrop, olives and the sea but also a human
drama. Christopher Bakken proves that what's ancient is also modern
and vice versa. We live between times; only poetry can make it
palpable."
--Adam Zagajewski
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