June-tree : new and selected poems, 1974-2000 / Peter Balakian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balakian, Peter, 1951-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenian Americans.

Armenian Americans--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

178 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Perennial edition.

Place of Publication:

[New York, NY] : Perennial, 2004.

Summary:

Prize-winning poet and New York Times-bestselling author Peter Balakian offers the best of his previous poetry, as well as thirteen new poems.

For three decades, Peter Balakian's poetry has been praised widely in the United States and abroad. He 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.

Contents:

New Poems

Photosynthesis 3

The Tree 5

Yorkshire Dales 6

Killary Harbor 8

In Armenia, 1987 10

Lowlands 11

Night Patio 14

Ellis Island 18

Train to Utica 19

The Children's Museum at Yad Vashem 23

Harpert, Revisited 24

Parable for Vanished Countries 26

Jade Boat 27

From Dyer's Thistle (1996)

August Diary 31

Physicians 37

My Father on the Berengaria, 1926 41

World War II 42

The Oriental Rug 47

Duck 'n' Cover, 1953 53

Flat Sky of Summer 54

Rock 'n' Roll 57

Saigon/New Jersey 58

Out of School 59

First Communion 60

Woodstock 61

Last Days Painting (August 1973) 62

Post Vietnam 65

American Dreaming 69

Mandelstam in Armenia, 1930 73

Geese Flying Over Hamilton, New York 74

The Backyard 76

A Toast 77

My Son Stares into a Tulip 78

Morning News 80

The End of the Reagan Era 82

In Church 83

A Letter to Wallace Stevens 88

After the Survivors Are Gone 91

Ocean 92

From Reply from Wilderness Island (1988)

The Creases 95

Night Blue Fishing on Block Island 97

Thoreau at Nauset 100

To Arshile Gorky 102

Camille Claudel, Some Notes 104

Poppies 107

Parts of Peonies 109

Domestic Lament 110

A Version of Paolo and Francesca 112

I Wish Us Back to Mud 114

Blood Pudding, Antigua, W.I. 115

Fish Mouth 118

A Country House 120

Mussel Shell 121

Jersey Bait Shack 122

From Sad Days of Light (1983)

The History of Armenia 125

Road to Aleppo, 1915 128

Post-Traumatic Shock, Newark, New Jersey, 1942 129

The Claim 131

Granny, Making Soup 140

Three Museum Offerings (Native American Artifacts at the Whitney) 145

That Is Why This Day Passes Like a Thousand Lilies 147

The Rise in the Night 149

Seferis Returning to Smyrna, 1950 151

For My Grandmother, Coming Back 153

From Father Fisheye (1979)

After We Split 157

Winter Revival 158

A Sequence of Wind Between Seasons 159

Graham House, April '76 160

Approaching the Summer Solstice 161

Letting the Fog In 164

To Hart Crane 165

Robert Lowell Near Stockbridge 167

"My Mother Is a Fish" 168

Father Fisheye 171

Words for My Grandmother 172

The Field of Poppies 173.

ISBN:

9780060556174

006055617X

OCLC:

149135614