V Penelope Pelizzon. Nostos. Athens...

V Penelope Pelizzon. Nostos. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Pres 2000

Penelope Pelizzon's first main division of poems--winner of the Hollis Summer metrical composition Prize--sticks closely to the narrative of nostalgia and reply she sets up in the first of four sections of the collection. The metrical compositions are intentionally domesticated in the way family become in pictures, and she uses photographic memory to resonant consequence The book is dedicated to her family and to the memory of her father, which have the appearances appropriate, as the first pair sections deal with family history and photographs, following an