Psychopomp

by John Sakkis

A ghost story, the Psychopomp escorts the dead through childhood homes, mirrors, the ossified detritus of the beach. An Ur-text to Sakkis's The Islands and Rude Girl.

62 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

About the author

John Sakkis is a poet. His books include Mirror Magic (Roof Books), Nike+ (BOTH BOTH Books), Psychopomp (BOTH BOTH Books), RAVE ON! (BOTH BOTH Books), The Islands (Nightboat Books), and Rude Girl (BlazeVOX Books), as well as numerous chapbooks and ephemera. From 2005-2015 he edited BOTH BOTH, a little magazine of poetry. With Angelos Sakkis, he has translated five books by Athenian poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis: Y’es and Diaeresis (Dusie Press), “now, 1/3” and thepoem (BlazeVOX Books), Writing Dimensions (Green Integer), Chinese Notebook (Ugly Duckling Presse), and Maribor (The Post-Apollo Press), which was awarded the 2011 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. He was born and raised and lives in the East Bay Area.