Petrakis, Harry Mark 1978
Friday, April 7, 1978
Vintage poster of Harry Mark Petrakis’s reading at the Poetry Center of Chicago.
…I will burrow once more into the cloisters of my life, exhume the spirits of those I loved. I will revisit the neighborhoods of my youth; call up the visages of old friends and in Homer’s words, “Look both before and after.”
– Harry Mark Petrakis, “Song of My Life”
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Read an interview with Harry Mark Petrakis from Poets&Writers:
An Interview With Fiction Writer Harry Mark Petrakis
The ninth novel and eighteenth book by Harry Mark Petrakis, who turns 80 on June 5, will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in the same month. Twilight of the Ice is set in the Chicago railyards, in the blue-collar, industrial neighborhoods of the early 1950s.
