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Forgotten bread : first-generation Armenian American writers / edited by David Kherdian ; with contributing essays by Nancy Agabian ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Armenian American authors.
- American literature.
- Armenian Americans--Literary collections.
- Armenian Americans.
- Genre:
- Literary collections.
- Literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 481 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- This outstanding collection of literature from seventeen first-generation Armenian American authors, each introduced by a member of the second generation, is intense, magical, and filled with the love of life. It is also characterized by the unspeakable sadness that accompanies the loss of many of their countrymen and women in the Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1917. What coalesces is a deeply American story about the forces that propel individuals forward in a new world.
- Contents:
- Leon Serabian Herald / Hrag Varjabedian 1
- Poems 6
- Power of Horizon 15
- The Ass and the Sunbeam 20
- The Watermelon and the Saint 21
- Emmanuel P. Varandyan / Patricia Sarrafian Ward 25
- Death Is an Empty Coffin 29
- Leon Surmelian / David Stephen Calonne 56
- The Sombrero 62
- Armenia 68
- M. Farid 82
- William Saroyan / Mark Arax 94
- The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze 97
- Seventy Thousand Assyrians 101
- Credo: The Time of Your Life 109
- The Humingbird That Lived through Winter 110
- Gaston 113
- Najari Levon's Old Country Advice to the Young Americans on How to Live with a Snake 119
- A. I. Bezzerides / Mark Arax 123
- The Vines 127
- Dreamers 133
- The White Mule 136
- Richard Hagopian / Gary Goshgarian 140
- Saint in the Snow 144
- Reuben Finds Love 150
- Tahmm-tahmm, Tahmm-tahmm 159
- Khatchik (Archie) Minasian / Aram Saroyan 168
- The Simple Songs 170
- Marjorie Housepian / Mona Ghuneim 187
- Saturday Night 190
- How Levon Dai Was Surrendered to the Edemuses 199
- Peter Sourian / Hrag Vartanian 209
- Death of an Art Dealer 213
- from The Gate 217
- About Kenneth's Education 222
- Harry Barba / Christopher Atamian 241
- The Ikon 244
- The Man Who Didn't Want to Box Muhammad Ali 256
- Diana Der-Hovanessian / Nancy Kricorian 269
- Poems 272
- Michael J. Arlen / David Stephen Calonne 299
- from Passage to Ararat 303
- David Kherdian / Aris Janigian 318
- from The Road from Home 322
- Poems 323
- Dedeh (from I Called It Home) 326
- Poems 327
- Our Block (from I Called It Home) 328
- Poems 330
- Harold Bond / Gregory Djanikian 349
- Poems 353
- Helene Pilibosian / Alan Semerdjian 374
- Poems 378
- Peter Najarian / Arthur Nersesian 399
- The Aki 403
- from Daughters of Memory 410
- Arlene Voski Avakian / Nancy Agabian 424
- from Lion Woman's Legacy 428
- Poems 449
- Appendix A Author Checklists 457
- Appendix B Biographies of Essayists 467
- Appendix C Notable Writers of the First Generation 470
- Appendix D Small Presses; Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers; Anthologies 471.
- Notes:
- An anthology of first-generation Armenian American writers introduced by second-generation Armenian American writers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 474-475).
- ISBN:
- 9781597140690
- 1597140694
- OCLC:
- 122526738
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