The Burning Glass

by Der-Hovanessian, Diana

• ISBN13: 9781931357050
• ISBN10: 1931357056
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England

Author Biography

New England-born poet DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN is the author of fourteen books of poetry and translations. She has won international and national awards and fellowships, including prizes from the Poetry Society of America, the Columbia/PEN Translation Center, and the Massachusetts Arts Council. She is president of the New England Poetry Club and works as a visiting poet and guest lecturer on American poetry, Armenian poetry in translation, and the literature of human rights at various universities. Her poems are often aired on National Public Radio.

Table of Contents

Pictures From Home
It's About Time	1	(1)
Traveling Home	2	(1)
Pictures From Home	3	(1)
Tell The Armenian Story	4	(2)
Notice	6	(1)
Machine Of War	7	(1)
City Dweller With Photo	8	(1)
Forsythia	9	(1)
Niklos Radnoti To Daniel Varoujan On Dusty Days	10	(1)
Safe House	11	(4)
The Burning Glass
Biotechnology	15	(1)
Burning Glass	16	(1)
Thanksgiving Poem	17	(1)
Heat	18	(1)
Improving The Golden Rule	19	(1)
Cookie Sayings	20	(1)
The Magi	21	(1)
Secret	22	(1)
Salad Sestina	23	(2)
I Love You	25	(1)
Valentine	26	(1)
Eros	27	(1)
Winter Twilight	28	(1)
Immigrants	29	(1)
Steam Heat	30	(3)
The Post Modern Poem
The Old Poet	33	(1)
For Charles Who Was Always Getting Ready To Write	34	(1)
Post Balzac	35	(1)
The Post Modern Poem	36	(2)
Only One Other Poem	38	(3)
Except In Translation	41	(1)
The Foreign Poet Who Has Come To Stay	42	(1)
The Poet From Beirut	43	(1)
My Hero Is Abraham Lindbergh	44	(1)
Something Like A Leopard	45	(1)
Paleologos	46	(1)
On The Ice	47	(1)
The Dream Of The Copywriter Turned Poet	48	(1)
A Language Like Water	49	(1)
Song Division	50	(3)
Walking Backwards
You Know The Story	53	(2)
Walking Backwards	55	(1)
The Forties	56	(1)
Paradise	57	(1)
End Of Desire	58	(1)
The Couple	59	(1)
Commencement	60	(1)
Shekina	61	(1)
Open Heart	62	(2)
Cure For Aching Feet	64	(1)
After The Quarrel	65	(1)
For Hyman Bloom Painting	66	(1)
The Inrem Of St. Brendan	67	(3)
My Mother Would Never Talk	70	(1)
My Mother Growing Old	71	(1)
Holding On	72	(2)
You Are Still Alive	74	(3)
Unmailed Letters
River Merchant's Wife A Fifth Letter	77	(1)
To Keep It	78	(1)
Their Totem	79	(1)
Your Evening	80	(1)
How To Read Coffee Cups	81	(1)
Armenian Eyes	82	(1)
Colors Of Love	83	(1)
People With My Blood	84	(1)
Different	85	(2)
Armenian Sketches 1995-99	87	(4)
The Poem That Started Out For You And Ended Up For Armenia	91	(1)
Tea With Your Mistresses	92	(1)
Hokusai Print 1798	93	(1)
The Day Before The Trees Bloom	94	(1)
This Is How It Ends	95