Islands

Robert Zaller

ISBN 978-0-977461-02-8

About the Book

Over the years, Robert Zaller has visited and stayed on dozens of Greek islands. His journeys in Greece have inspired the lyrical poems in his latest verse collection, Islands.

Praise for the Collection

“[These] poems … are like so many multi-colored pebbles shimmering in the Mediterranean sun and caressed to perfection by the constant ebb and flow of the Aegean Sea.” -- Kostas Myrsiades, Gold Medallion Award, Hellenic Society of Translators

“These fine poems evoke not only the extraordinary beauty of their subject, but also a sense of immanent grandeur that lies behind it. A rich, rewarding collection.” -- Richard Burgin, Editor, Boulevard

About the Author

Robert Zaller, poet, critic, and historian, is the author of four previous verse collections: The Year One, Lives of the Poet, Invisible Music, and For Empedocles. His other books include The Cliffs of Solitude: A Reading of Robinson Jeffers and The Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Modern England. He is, with Lili Bita, the translator of Thirty Years in the Rain: The Selected Poetry of Nikiforos Vrettakos (Somerset Hall Press). He is Professor of History at Drexel University. His honors include a Guggenheim fellowship.