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Peter Balakian - New York Trilogy, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

New York Trilogy

Av Peter Balakian

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An American long poem in three sections by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian that moves between decades of tumultuous life in New York City and explosive parts of the Middle East.  In an inventive, elliptical language, New York Trilogy explores one man’s journey from the late 1960s to the twenty-first century, as he moves through a series of experiences centered in New York City and the surrounding New Jersey Palisades. Throughout this long poem in three parts, the protagonist’s life is impacted by historical events including the Armenian Genocide, the bombing of Hiroshima, the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, the attacks of September 11th, the US war in Iraq, and the climate crisis.  Comprised of three multi-sequence poems originally included in Peter Balakian’s collections No Sign, Ozone Journal, and Ziggurat, the sections of New York Trilogy come together to form a poetry that embraces interior and aesthetic experiences, celebrates human intimacy, and bears witness to history. The historical power and psychological depth of Balakian’s work expands on the tradition of the American long poem with a lyrical narrative that weaves intimate personal moments into the vastness of shared history.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-10-09
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 172 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 104
  • Förlag: The University of Chicago Press
  • ISBN: 9780226843742
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Peter Balakian is the author of nine books of poems including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Ozone Journal. His memoir Black Dog of Fate won the PEN/Albrand Award, and The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response was a New York Times bestseller. Balakian’s work has been translated into many languages, and he teaches at Colgate University.

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"New York Trilogy reads as the culmination of [Balakian's] life-long concern with how poetry can address—honestly, but with that complexity and beauty unique to poetry—the twin poles of human atrocity and cultural achievement; of planetary extinction and possibility. . . . Montage, fragmentation, the juggling of multiple time frames and sources, as well as variations in verse form, diction, and pacing make for some challenging reading. But ultimately, I found the book tremendously moving in its search for clarity in a life lived in full awareness of the present moment—with all its historical, cultural, geographical, and political context still attached. . . . What results is a dynamic, disturbing account of human achievement colliding periodically with the 'chthonic zigzag of hubris'. Excavation, building, and collapse recur throughout, sources of both beauty and horror. Balakian’s diction sometimes veers into technical, numerical, even algebraic language."

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