Memento Tsunami

MEMENTO TSUNAMI is Vasiliki Katsarou's debut collection and is marked by startling abstract and lyrical poems that draw from a wide variety of cultural influences. These include her Greek heritage, background in European filmmaking, as well as a childhood among the ghosts of New England Transcendentalism. Katsarou's work reflects a nostalgia for origins as well as a 21st century visionary impulse to reconcile disparate worlds.

Praise for MEMENTO TSUNAMI: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 AphorismsReading Vasiliki Katsarou's poetry is like watching an exquisitely made film: so beautiful are the images moving through time that you want to pause and let your eyes luxuriate over each frame; so beautiful is the music that you don t want the movement to stop. We hear echoes of Sappho, Emily Dickinson, H.D., Mina Loy, and Lorine Niedecker, whose beautiful poetry, like Katsarou s, is crafted with classical discipline, yet is not merely beautiful, nor merely classical. --ALIKI BARNSTONE, author of Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems and The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New TranslationVASILIKI KATSAROU holds an A.B. in comparative literature from Harvard and an MFA from Boston University. Raised in Lowell, Massachusetts to Greek parents, Katsarou has worked in film and television production in France and Greece. She wrote and directed the award-winning 35mm short film, Fruitlands 1843, about the Transcendentalist utopian community founded by Bronson Alcott. She co-edited and wrote the introduction to Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems, published by Ragged Sky Press in 2009.