Poem of the Week | November 27, 2012
Tryfon Tolides: "From 'Standards in Norway'"
This week we’re celebrating our brand-new Fall “German Shepherd” issue, 35.3, with a wonderful poem from its pages by Tryfon Tolides. Tolides was born in Korifi Voiou, Greece. His first book, An Almost Empty Walking, was a 2005 National Poetry Series selection, published by Penguin in 2006. In 2009, he received a Lannan Foundation Writer Residency in Marfa, Texas.
From “Standards in Norway”
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