Any Day Now

by Der Hovanessian, Diana

• ISBN13: 9781878818751
• ISBN10: 1878818759
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Pr

Author Biography

DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN is the author of twenty-two books of poetry and translations and has received numerous awards for her work from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, and PEN-Columbia Translation Center, among others.

Table of Contents

It's Hard to Be the Child	p. 3
On the Anniversary of My Father's Death	p. 5
Why the Crane Has No Voice	p. 7
Any Day Now	p. 8
Avedis's Dream	p. 10
Finding Words	p. 12
White Lamb, Blue Mulberry	p. 13
Flying Back	p. 16
At the Funeral of Gomidas	p. 18
The Armenian Word for Love	p. 20
The Armenian Word for Hate	p. 21
Grandmother's Dress	p. 22
Company Outing Photo	p. 24
How to Talk with the Dead	p. 29
Passwords	p. 31
Far from Sumgait, Far from Karabagh	p. 32
When God Was Dividing the Lands	p. 33
The Land Where Water Flows Upward	p. 34
My Poems Are	p. 36
The Last Witness	p. 37
Last Walk	p. 41
Penelope	p. 42
The Singing Shadow	p. 43
U.F.O.	p. 44
All the Best Camps	p. 45
Midwest Landing	p. 46
Summer Night in Madrid	p. 47
Doing	p. 48
What Can I Say?	p. 49
What Is Love?	p. 53
Passion	p. 54
You Never Knew Because	p. 55
Love Without Knowledge Is Like	p. 56
Plumage	p. 57
Schadenfreude	p. 58
Songs About Land	p. 59
Love Song After Karentz	p. 61
Count Me	p. 62
Armenian	p. 63
Send Me a Letter	p. 64
Photos from Maria Banus	p. 65
On the Morning of Her Last Day	p. 66
My Name	p. 67
Ephesus	p. 69
The Substitutions	p. 73
Getting Letters Back from a Lover	p. 75
Basics	p. 79
Nest	p. 80
Angel in Somerville	p. 81
Don't Hold a Grudge Too Tightly	p. 82
Money	p. 83
Don Juan and the Stone Guest	p. 84
Invitation	p. 85
The Magic Armenian Numbers	p. 86
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