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Bloody News from My Friend: Poems by Siamanto

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Availability:In StockContributor:Siamanto, Nevart Yaghlian (Translator), Peter Balakian (Translator)Publish date:11/01/96Pages:80
Language:EnglishPublisher:Wayne State University PressISBN-13:9780814326404ISBN-10:814326404UPC:9780814326404Book Category:Poetry, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Genocide & War CrimesBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.45 x 5.46 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SCAACVS969

A cycle of poems depicting the attrocities committed during the Armenian genocide.

Siamanto (1875-1915), one of the most important Armenian poets of the twentieth-century, was among the Armenian intellectuals executed by the Turkish government at the onset of the genocide during the first decade of the century. Available for the first time in English translation, his Bloody News from My Friend depicts the atrocities committed by the Ottoman Turkish government against its Armenian population.

The cycle of twelve poems bears the imprint of genocide in a language that is raw and blunt; it often eschews metaphor and symbol for more stark representation. Siamanto confronts pain, destruction, sadism, and torture as few modern poets have. Peter Balakian's critical introduction places Siamanto's poems in literary and historical context. The translation by Balakian and Nevart Yaghlian allows readers to hear Siamanto's startling and arresting voice in a fresh, vernacular language.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Wayne State University PressISBN-13:9780814326404ISBN-10:814326404UPC:9780814326404Book Category:Poetry, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Genocide & War CrimesBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.45 x 5.46 x 0.27 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SCAACVS969

Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian is the author of four books of poems, most recently Dyer's Thistle, and a book on Theodore Roethke. He is co-editor of the poetry journal Graham House Review and a professor of English at Colgate University.

Nevart Yaghlian was born in Jerusalem and has taught at Haigazian College in Beirut. She was the director of counseling in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University.


Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Contributor(s)

Siamanto, Nevart Yaghlian (Translator), Peter Balakian (Translator)

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Siamanto

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