Call me Stratos Harriet Paige “Christopher Locke writes true-story poems

“Christopher Locke writes true-story poems about growing up in America

The eerily shocking ending of many of these stories is the moment their protagonists climb on the cattle trains to be transported to Auschwitz

• Khaled Khalifa

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Call me Stratos Harriet Paige “Christopher Locke writes true-story poemsAfter his dramatic divorce and at the age of forty two, Stratos Achtidis returns to his family home to live with his mother and brother. Humiliated and feeling cut off from family and friends, he turns to drink and reminiscences of a over glorified past. Through the eyes of Stratos, the reader experiences the challenges and changes that have taken place in Greek society over the last quarter of a century; the problems of the ordinary working class