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Informationen zum Autor Armen Davoudian has an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and is currently a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University. His poems and translations from Persian appear in Poetry magazine , the Hopkins Review , the Yale Review , and elsewhere. His chapbook, Swan Song , won the Frost Place Competition. Armen grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and lives in California. Klappentext 'In this formally radical debut, Armen Davoudian shows how rhyme enacts longing for a homeland left behind; how meter sings to a lost beloved; and how a combination of the two can map a self - or idea of the self - relinquished so that a new life, and all the happiness it deserves, can take shape' Paul Tran, author of All The Flowers Kneeling 'Home and its opposites; love and loss; youth and age; innocence and knowledge; grief and celebration: Armen Davoudian's poems are built on a series of binaries. This makes for an unusually well-organised and intellectually satisfying collection, but what gives it a special distinction, and marks the arrival of a notable new voice, is the way these opposites are brought into a continual fresh contact with one another by various kinds of formal dexterity and emotional intensity. It means that The Palace of Forty Pillars is a moving book as well as an elegant one; its central preoccupation with the theme of belonging speaks memorably to one of the most urgent questions of our time' Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate of the UK 1999-2009 'Armen Davoudian's The Palace of Forty Pillars heralds a new but already accomplished voice in American poetry, and indeed of an evolving America. Davoudian, born in Iran and Armenian by heritage, is a young master of the English language who brings to mind the high-culture wit of James Merrill and the affecting reticence of Elizabeth Bishop. Davoudian is also irrepressibly contemporary . . . There are twenty quite perfect poems here, if we count the sequence of twenty sonnets as a single poem; there are word-games, and worlds within words, and clever rhymes. Yet we feel the poet has spoken to us heart to heart, with a naturalness we trust. Our experience of this first book is more than double: we know we'll return to read it again, and again and again' Mary Jo Salter, author of Zoom Rooms , co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry 'These are songs of adolescence and love, of migration and history, brilliant and deft and heartfelt . . . A magisterial book-reading it, I felt enchanted and transformed' Richie Hofmann, author of A Hundred Lovers Vorwort Stunning debut collection by young Armenian-Iranian poet Davoudian. The poems tell the story of a speaker estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian in Iran and an immigrant in America. Zusammenfassung Stunning debut collection by young Armenian-Iranian poet Davoudian. The poems tell the story of a speaker estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian in Iran and an immigrant in America....
