The Wall Game

Author/Contributor(s):	Papageorgiou, Fani
Publisher:	NYRB Poets
Date:	3/16/2027
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The first recorded incident of the Wall Game, played at Eton College in England, is from 1766. Fani Papageorgiou, winner of the Hong Kong Poetry Prize, has published three books with Shearsman Press in the UK. The first one, When You Said No, Did You Mean Never?, which the New York Times called “disconcerting and magnetic”, was also published in Spanish by Bartleby Editores in Madrid. Whether it's a road trip through Alabama and Tennessee, her childhood in Greece or a few days of isolation at the Hotel Bel Air on assignment, Papageorgiou mines the personal to try to outline what it means to be alive. Barry Schwabsky wrote that her "kaleidoscopic sequence of searing fragments marks the arrival of an outstanding poet". For the first time selections from her previous books are published in America, along with her long poem, *The Wall Game*, where goals are so rare that "whole decades go by / with not one being scored".