The palace of forty pillars : poems /
Wry, tender and innovative, Armen Davoudian's debut poetry collection, The Palace of Forty Pillars, tells the story of a self estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian in Iran and an immigrant in America. It is a story darkened by the long shadow of global tragedies,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Portland, Oregon :
Tin House,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First US edition. |
| Summary: | Wry, tender and innovative, Armen Davoudian's debut poetry collection, The Palace of Forty Pillars, tells the story of a self estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian in Iran and an immigrant in America. It is a story darkened by the long shadow of global tragedies, the Armenian genocide, war in the Middle East and the specter of homophobia. With masterful attention to rhyme and meter, these poems also carefully witness the most intimate encounters, the awkward distance between mother and son getting ready in the morning, the delicate balance of power between lovers and a tense exchange with the morality police in Iran. In Isfahan, Iran, the eponymous palace has only twenty pillars, but, reflected in its courtyard pool, they become forty. This is the gamble of Davoudian's magical, ruminative poems, to recreate, in art's reflection, a home for the speaker, who is unable to return to it in life. |
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| Item Description: | Illustrations on endpapers. |
| Physical Description: | 71 pages : maps, portrait ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781959030362 1959030361 |