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The latest anthology in Arc's 'New Voices from Europe and Beyond' series features the work of six of Armenia's poets – three men, Anatoli Hovhannisyan, Khachik Manoukyan and Hrachya Saroukhan and three women, Violet Grigorian, Azniv Sahakyan and Hasmik Simonian. Together they have all helped to shape the face of contemporary Armenian poetry.
Of the six, Grigorian and Hovhannisyan originally began writing in the age of Stalin, only becoming more visible and appreciated since independence. Saroukhan, Sahakyan and Manoukyan established themselves in post-Stalin Soviet Armenia, while the youngest poet, Hasmik Simonian, is a writer of the new Armenia, out of the shadow of the Soviet past.
This is a bi-lingual edition, with the Armenian original and the English translation on facing pages.
Razmik Davoyan is the unofficial Armenian poet laureate, and recipient of the President's Prize for Literature (2003). Widely published in Armenian, Russian and Czech, his collections in English are Selected Poems (Macmillan, 2002) and Whispers and Breath of the Meadows (Arc, 2010).
Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface, Introduction, Hrachya Saroukhan, Biography "A raindrop - " / 21 "Once - " / 21 Unfinished Autumnal Lines / 23 "There was nothing beyond my voice - " / 31 And Since - / 31 Impression / 33 "A Call to Enter a Dream - " / 33 Violet Grigorian Elegy / 41 1993 / 43 "Sparkling wine saved for a dark hour - " / 45 Death's Bride / 47 Khachik Manoukyan, Biography "Cursed are - " / 57 Past / 57 Desert / 59 Nocturnal Sketch / 59 Prisoner / 61 "A meagre lone candle - " / 63 "I searched for you in the waves - " / 63 A Wounded Cross / 63 Azniv Sahakyan, Biography "Spring is a throb of blue - " / 75 "The flowers are singing - " / 75 "I was chewing on my heart to soften it - " / 77 "The abyss in my room is growing deeper - " / 77 The quiver of the water is red/ 79 Autumn was descending / 79, Darkness of the shadow of my voice /81, Deaf is the leech of night/ 81, Leaves, speaking of the delaying rains... /81, The black birds of the lines.../83, Perhaps I am stone.../83, The words are seeking torches.../83, Like a tree that blossoms and thins nicely.../85, In the snows of my heart../85 The moon over the street like a billboard.../87 Anatoli Hovhannisyan Biography/ I seek myself../ A line of poetry... / A lost day on the calendar.../ the wind has burnt its lips.../ You are asleep.../ I am lost in your breathless eyes.../ I'm a fainting river.../ The trees are alone.../ Emptiness is filled with screams of fear.../ I am all you have in life.../ I'm a fishing net... / "I keep repeating my name - " /"I live in anticipation - " / "I am alone - " / "Torn pieces of a painting - " / "Dust - " /"The snow in the twilight - " / When the Wound Turns into a Corn / "An animal carcass, barely visible - " / "I have woken - " / Hasmik Simonian Biography "In the solace of a white silence - " / hello / "Days were smoking cigarettes - " / to mary / "among the autumns opening-shrinking like an accordion - " /
