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Paperback. Condition: Good. In this tenth anniversary edition of his award-winning memoir, New York Times bestselling author Peter Balakian has expanded his compelling story about growing up in the baby-boom suburbs of the '50s and '60s and coming to understand what happened to his family in the first genocide of the twentieth century,the Ottoman Turkish government's extermination of more than one million Armenians in 1915. In this new edition, Balakian continues his exploration of the Armenian Genocide with new chapters about his journey to Aleppo and his trip to the Der Zor desert of Syria in his pursuit of his grandmother's life, bringing us closer to the twentieth century's first genocide.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. In this tenth anniversary edition of his award-winning memoir, New York Times bestselling author Peter Balakian has expanded his compelling story about growing up in the baby-boom suburbs of the '50s and '60s and coming to understand what happened to his family in the first genocide of the twentieth century,the Ottoman Turkish government's extermination of more than one million Armenians in 1915. In this new edition, Balakian continues his exploration of the Armenian Genocide with new chapters about his journey to Aleppo and his trip to the Der Zor desert of Syria in his pursuit of his grandmother's life, bringing us closer to the twentieth century's first genocide.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Features a sequence of fifty-four short sections, each a poem in itself. This book recounts the speaker's memory of excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a crew of television journalists.

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Hardback. Condition: Good. For three decades, Peter Balakian's poetry has been praised widely in the United States and abroad. Writing in the>Boston Globe, Marcie Hershman called>Sad Days of Light a piercingly elegant volume, and John Naughton in World Literature Today praised Dyer's Thistle as a remarkable and profoundly visionary work. Now the poet whom James Dickey called an extraordinary talent gives us>June-tree: New and Selected Poems 1974-2000, a discriminating selection from his first four books, with a group of startling new poems.In book after book, Balakian has created a unique voice in American poetry -- one that is both personal and cosmopolitan. In sensuous, elliptical language, Balakian offers a textured poetry that is beautiful and haunting as it envelops an American grain, the reverberations of the Armenian Genocide, and the wired, discordant realities of contemporary life.In his explorations of history, Balakian often deals with the transmission of trauma across generations in ways that bring daily American life into play with the dark frequencies of the past. The evolution of Balakian's form from volume to volume encompasses an expansive imagination, one always able to engage reality in its starkness, difficulty, and moments of revelation. June-tree>is a stunning body of work by an original poet.…

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Set in the affluent New Jersey suburbs where Balakian grew up, this text traces the complex process of discovering the facts of Balakian's people's history and the horrifying aftermath of the Turkish government's campaign to cover up one of the worst crimes ever committed against humanity.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. Set in the affluent New Jersey suburbs where Balakian grew up, this text traces the complex process of discovering the facts of Balakian's people's history and the horrifying aftermath of the Turkish government's campaign to cover up one of the worst crimes ever committed against humanity.…

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