Selected Poems

by Der Hovanessian, Diana

• ISBN13: 9781878818270
• ISBN10: 1878818279
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-12-01
• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Pr

Summary

Der-Hovanessian finds, in her Armenian culture and the genocide of 1915, a terrible and wonderful heritage. With her lyrical New England gifts and her American Armenian life, she makes poetry that is both personal and historical, which is to say she has fused song to bronze, a feat very few poets coming from a dual culture have dared or sustained.

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

Salt	p. 3
Bread	p. 6
Two Armenians Walking On Sunday	p. 7
The Dream	p. 9
Diaspora	p. 11
The Baker's Apprentice	p. 12
This Is For Zarif	p. 14
Songs of Bread	p. 16
Translating	p. 17
Three Poets, 1915	p. 18
Miscarriage	p. 20
Postcard from Daniel Varoujan	p. 21
Two Voices	p. 23
Without You I Am	p. 25
How To Become An Armenian	p. 26
For My Father	p. 28
Shifting the Sun	p. 29
Exiles	p. 30
At Mt. Auburn Cemetery	p. 31
Looking At Cambodian Newsphotos	p. 32
Flying Over the Caucasus	p. 33
White Nights, Black Days	p. 36
Horses on the Roof	p. 39
No One Tattooed My Skin	p. 40
The Longest Kiss In the World	p. 41
Inside Green Eyes, Black Eyes	p. 42
In My Dream	p. 43
Sunset	p. 44
Drowning	p. 45
Secret of Life	p. 47
Listening To You Talk To Someone Else	p. 48
The Riddle	p. 49
Mixed Marriage	p. 50
Couples	p. 52
His First Wife	p. 53
Daughter	p. 54
Poultry	p. 55
Forgetting	p. 56
Fisherman's Mother	p. 58
Game	p. 59
From a Nerja Hotel Window	p. 60
Unnatural Rhythms	p. 61
Translating	p. 64
Open Poem	p. 65
What the Dead Don't Know	p. 66
On Being Asked to Supply Date and Place of Birth	p. 67
For the Unsaid	p. 68
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