{"product_id":"note-to-self-anastasia-vassos-9798901468517","title":"Note to Self","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnastasia Vassos writes, \"I stand at the brink of my life,\" and this collection embodies the intensity derived from a sense of lastness, when every moment matters. She revels in the ordinary and the extraordinary - from a highway drive with family through New Jersey, to visions of God that arise as she watches a grocery store worker stack pomegranates, and as she feels a smudge of candle soot on her finger. In truth, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote to Self\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is Vassos' letter to the world, a world made manifest line by line in these startling, radiant poems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Barber\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her new collection, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote to Self, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAnastasia Vassos takes us on a hero's journey through lineage and love, icons and gods, memory and prayer. In her opening poem, \"Made Manifest,\" Vassos writes: \"I am \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003elosing it, that sense \/ of where I'm going\" - and she never does. She is a clear-eyed and observant guide to mortality and what is to come, celebrating language, life, and her own fascinating Greek heritage. Vassos' poems are inimitable, \"a power \/ rising out of a shadow-cave to sunlight, renewal.\" Note to self: Read this collection again and again.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eKyle Potvin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLoosen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote to Self, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e her second collection, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAnastasia Vassos\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003econtinues to weave an exquisite and erudite conversation with the world and the human soul, and the result is magical. What a delight! These expansive poems are inseparable from their meditative and lyric engagement with the world, their hunger for the spiritual, and their sensual joy in the body as well as their awareness of loss. The stakes are always high. \"Dear God, \/ When you see me eating in church \/ it's because I hunger.\" This is the hunger of a deeply observant heart. It is the hunger of both soul and body - it is love, and in the world of this book, all is sacred. Nourishing and vital, these poems offer an introspective and passionate radiance with each reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuzanne Mercury\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eHive\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anastasia Vassos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798901468517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kelsay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Anastasia Vassos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852976075007,"sku":"9798901468517","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/note-to-self-anastasia-vassos-9798901468517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}