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(0)Peter Balakian
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed.
Lexile measure
1170L
Physical Desc
292 : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"His visions are burning -- his poetry heartbreaking," wrote Elie Wiesel of American poet Peter Balakian. Now, in elegant prose, the prize-winning poet who James Dickey called "an extraordinary talent" has written a compelling memoir about growing up American in a family that was haunted by a past too fraught with terror to be spoken of openly. Black Dog of Fate is set in the affluent New Jersey suburbs where Balakian -- the firstborn son of his generation...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
ix, 82 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A sequel of sorts to "Ziggurat," published in the Phoenix Poets series in 2010, the title poem from "Ozone Journal" recounts the memory of the speaker's excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a TV journalist crew in 2009. The speaker "dreams back," as it were, to the 1980s, when, as a young man in his thirties and caring for a young daughter after a recent divorce, he is having to juggle both personal and cultural/historical...