Review
My stay at the institute with Barry Tagrin in Paros was a wonderful moment in my life. But even better was getting to know Barry's poetry, helping him to prepare his manuscript and seeing how much he cared about poetry itself. For him it was a highly sacred undertaking. I truly value the poems in Collage of the Soul, for their perfectly natural construction and truth of feeling. --Jason Shider
For me, Barry contains the wilderness, a romantic spirit, and a real sense of power. --Linda Gregg
Barry Tagrin is dangerous, his work muscular without straining, and always a surprise. --Jack Gilbert
About the Author
Barry Tagrin is the founding director of Hellenic International Studies in the Arts and head of its poetry center and Writer In Residence Program. A graduate of San Francisco State s writing program in 1974, he was an original member of the San Francisco Poetry Group, along with Jack Gilbert, Linda Gregg, Larry Felson, and others. As poet, painter, and teacher, he has lived and worked internationally in Spain, Algeria, Denmark, Malaysia and Japan, finally settling in Greece, where he now lives with his Japanese wife and new daughter, Mona.