"His wry and beautifully-written excursion into a dystopian Arcadia is rooted in his sardonic wit and in the pitiless eye that he turns on modern Greece, on modern Greeks, and, not the least, on himself." --Witold Rybczynski
David Solway is the author of many books of poetry including Modern Marriage, Bedrock, Saracen Island: The Poetry of Andreas Karavis, and Franklin's Passage, winner of the 2004 Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. His most recent collection, The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat, was published in 2005. Currently an associate editor with Books in Canada, he lives in Hudson, Quebec.
