"Portrait of a Woman Brushing Her Hair and Other Poems" takes place in the eastern Mediterranean, and its environment engages the poet's five senses. Physical impressions of the region are the play of light, the flowing water, the layers of age, the "peopled beaches", the unending nightlife, and the ubiquitous reminder of spirituality in the blue-topped churches and the Christian millennium. The description of the present melds with the Greek past that is found in the absent More...