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Carnegie Mellon University Press
January 2007
On Sale: January 16, 2007
92 pages
ISBN: 088748462X
EAN: 9780887484629
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Fiction Poetry
Gregory Djanikian's So I Will Till the Ground, his fifth
collection of poetry, confronts the horrors of the Armenian
genocide of 1915, and the diaspora that ensued, sending
survivors to all parts of the world. By turns sorrowful and
redemptive, the poems go on to record the author's boyhood
in Egypt, and his eventual emigration to the United States
and into a wholly different dulture, and a life, however
new, lived always under the haunting shadow of the 1915
cataclysm. "These are poems," Peter Balakian has written,
that "chart . . . nothing less than a modern epic
trajectory" whose narratives "move from the elegiac to the
philosophical and to the heartfelt comedy of human love."
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