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    Nike Adjusting Her Sandal
    Nike Adjusting Her Sandal
    Nike Adjusting Her Sandal
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    Nike Adjusting Her Sandal

    By Anastasia Vassos

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    "Three thousand ancestors ask how I straddle / the sea, a foot on either shore," Anastasia Vassos writes. One answer is this lovely book, which begins and ends in Greece, the home of both her ancestors and the mythological and literary figures she references throughout. Woven through the geographical fabric is a loose chronological thread connec

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNixes Mate Books
    Release dateApr 15, 2021
    ISBN9781949279351
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