Research Catalog

Title

The circle dancers / Diana Der-Hovanessian.

Author

Der Hovanessian, Diana.

Publication

Riverdale-on-Hudson, N.Y. : Sheep Meadow Press, 1996.

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Description

111 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Diana Der-Hovanessian finds, in her Armenian culture and the genocide of 1915, a terrible and wonderful heritage. With her lyrical New England gifts and her American Armenian life, her poetry is both personal and historical, which is to say she has fused song to bronze, a feat very few poets coming from a dual culture have dared or sustained.

Subject

• Armenian Americans > Poetry

Contents

• Teaching a Child To Dance -- Circle Dance -- The Kochari -- May I Have This Dance -- Laughter -- At Twilight -- How to Grow a Sailor -- Watching Children Dance -- Seagulls -- Running -- Break In -- Song of the Crane -- Translating -- Noah's Ravens -- Recycling Today -- Charm Against Inettia -- Four and Five -- Apricot Trees -- From a Letter I Did Not Receive -- What If -- Every Woman -- Love Poem -- The Proverb As Warning -- Chicken Riddle -- Muse -- For Stanley Kunitz Reading -- A Little Salt -- John Berryman Playing Chess -- Promethea -- Goya -- Uninvited -- Losing the Upper Hand -- Travel Opens the Eyes -- The Silverfish -- The Gray Villanelle -- In 1979 -- Song -- No Maestro -- One More -- Circling -- Bathing the Baby in Time of Drought -- The Moment That Stays -- Reel -- Winter In Wyoming -- Invisible -- Something About Connections -- First Snow, Last Snow -- Is Love Endless? -- Houses of Amsterdam -- On the Longest Day of the Year --
• Blackberry Summer -- Other -- Quilt -- The Poet Magician -- Coming Up For Air -- Statues of Haig -- Apples -- Olindo -- Lilac Sunday -- Something About Lilacs -- After the Earthquake -- Movses and Sevan -- May -- Desire -- Yarn.

ISBN

1878818554 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96030893

OCLC

• 35222989
• ocm35222989

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries