"Feta in Brine is the debut collection of poetry by Ellen Argyros (Needham author), a third-generation Greek-American who writes lyrical narratives of an often-elegiac nature. “Nitroglycerin Tablet, Taken Under the Tongue” is a tribute to her father; in it, she imagines him transformed into the various objects with which he surrounded himself when he was alive. “The Castle of Mytilene” is a verbal snapshot of a beautifully elusive place. “Bratty Little Sister” adopts a puckish tone as the speaker fondly recalls leaving a bowl of “hot, sloshing” urine in her sister’s bedroom. “He’s Got Mail” imagines the God who allows genocide to occur as a kind of negligent businessman, letting his inbox pile up. “Anne of Cleves” admires the amiable pragmatism of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, one of the lucky survivors.

In short, this is a collection varying in subject and tone, possessed of equal parts sorrow, longing, bile, and whimsy."

The book is autographed by the author.

from Amazon book description