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Edmund Keeley is a professor emeritus at Princeton University. He is the author of several novels and books of non-fiction. He has also translated many of the major Greek poets including Seferis, Cavafy, Ritsos, and Elytis. "Borderlines, Edmund Keeley’s memoir of his childhood in Greece, is an affectinate portrait of a lost world - a vision of paradise on the verge of dramatic change. He reveals in this intimate account the sources of his lifelong fascination with the Greek language and people - he is our leading guide to the glories of modern Greek poetry - and the borders he has crossed - physical, spiritual, linguistic, social - in his quest to make sense of the human condition. Keeley is an international treasure. This book tells us why." - Christopher Merrill poet and Director of the International Program at the Iowa Writers Workshop Accolades. "His was an unusual childhood, his early yaers spent on a farm. Perhaps that wasn’t so rare in the mid-1930s but the farm happened to be in a foreign country - Greece. Edmund Keeley’s late childhood spent at the American Farm Scholl outside Thessalonki imprinted Greece on his consciousness aas his first home. At least that’s partly the message of his latest book, Borderlines: A Memoir. It is a wonderful story of a boyhood: The field of crops, cows on which to practise milking, hay barns and milk delivery wagons, after-school soccer games and a holiday in a house trailer. Some of the relationships he formed at the time were friendships that lasted into adulthood. He makes it clear, teh memoir serving as sort fo ode, that these formative years, that introduction to Grece, influenced the course of his life even after his return to the US. It is a must read for anyone with a similar love of Greece."-Laura McDowell - Kathimerini English Edition (From the publisher)