Arcadia has two fine poets in this review, and they know each other’s work. Tom Petsinis has the following comment on the back cover of Maria Foroudi’s book Tears in My Bread: “The reader is taken on a journey through family life, the body, illness, migration to Australia and visits to Greece.” He says that the poems have an elegiac tone and affirm “poetry’s transformative power”. I enjoyed Maria Foroudi’s poems because they achieve a luminous simplicity that is the result both of the experiences considered and of a mastery of language that trims excess and hyperbole.…
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