Six Armenian Poets

Hrachya Sarukhan, Razmik Davoyan, Armine Tamrazian, Arminé Tamrazian

• Publisher: Arc Publications
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781906570873
• eBook ISBN:
  9781908376510
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

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The latest anthology in Arc's 'New Voices from Europe and Beyond' series features the work of six of Armenia's poets – three men, Anatoli Hovhannisyan, Khachik Manoukyan and Hrachya Saroukhan and three women, Violet Grigorian, Azniv Sahakyan and Hasmik Simonian. Together they have all helped to shape the face of contemporary Armenian poetry.
Of the six, Grigorian and Hovhannisyan originally began writing in the age of Stalin, only becoming more visible and appreciated since independence. Saroukhan, Sahakyan and Manoukyan established themselves in post-Stalin Soviet Armenia, while the youngest poet, Hasmik Simonian, is a writer of the new Armenia, out of the shadow of the Soviet past.
This is a bi-lingual edition, with the Armenian original and the English translation on facing pages.
Razmik Davoyan is the unofficial Armenian poet laureate, and recipient of the President's Prize for Literature (2003). Widely published in Armenian, Russian and Czech, his collections in English are Selected Poems (Macmillan, 2002) and Whispers and Breath of the Meadows (Arc, 2010).

CONTENTS

Series Editor’s Preface

Introduction

HRACHYA SARUKHAN

Biography

"²ÝÓñ»õÇ Ï³ÃÇÉ®"	•	“A raindrop…”
"ØÇ ³Ý·³Ù®"	•	“Once…”
²ßݳݳÛÇÝ ²Ý³í³ñï îáÕ»ñ	•	Unfinished Autumnal Lines
"ÆÙ Ó³ÛÝÇó ³ÛÝ ÏáÕÙ ³Ù³ÛáõÃÛáõÝ ¿ñ®"	•	“There was nothing beyond my voice…”
ºí ø³ÝÇ àñ®	•	And Since…
îå³íáñáõÃÛáõÝ	•	Impression
"ºñ³½³Ùáõï γÝ˳ӳÛÝ®"	•	“A Call to Enter a Dream…”

VIOLET GRIGORIAN

Biography

¾É»·Ç³	•	Elegy
1993Â	•	1993
"ê»õ ûñí³ å³Ñáõëï óáÉóÉáõÝ ·ÇÝÇ°®"	•	“Sparkling wine saved for a dark hour…”
سÑí³Ý гñëݳóáõÝ	•	Death’...

Table of contents

• Contents
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Introduction
• HRACHYA SARUKHAN
• “A raindrop…” (Armenian)
• “A raindrop…”
• “Once…” (Armenian)
• “Once…”
• Unfinished Autumnal Lines (Armenian)
• Unfinished Autumnal Lines
• “There was nothing beyond my voice…” (Armenian)
• “There was nothing beyond my voice…”
• And Since… (Armenian)
• And Since…
• Impression (Armenian)
• Impression
• “A Call to Enter a Dream…” (Armenian)
• “A Call to Enter a Dream…”
• VIOLET GRIGORIAN
• Elegy (Armenian)
• Elegy
• 1993 (Armenian)
• 1993
• “Sparkling wine saved for a dark hour…” (Armenian)
• “Sparkling wine saved for a dark hour…”
• Death's Betrothed (Armenian)
• Death's Betrothed
• KHACHIK MANOUKYAN
• “Cursed are…” (Armenian)
• “Cursed are…”
• Past (Armenian)
• Past
• Desert (Armenian)
• Desert
• Nocturnal Sketch (Armenian)
• Nocturnal Sketch
• “A meagre lone candle…” (Armenian)
• “A meagre lone candle…”
• “I searched for you in the waves…” (Armenian)
• “I searched for you in the waves…”
• A Wounded Cross (Armenian)
• A Wounded Cross
• AZNIV SAHAKYAN
• “Spring is pulsating blue…” (Armenian)
• “Spring is pulsating blue…”
• “The flowers are singing…” (Armenian)
• “The flowers are singing…”
• “I was chewing on my heart to soften it…” (Armenian)
• “I was chewing on my heart to soften it…”
• “The abyss in my room is growing deeper…” (Armenian)
• “The abyss in my room is growing deeper…”
• “The quiver of the water is red…” (Armenian)
• “The quiver of the water is red…”
• “Autumn was descending…” (Armenian)
• “Autumn was descending…”
• “Darkness is the shadow of my voice…” (Armenian)
• “Darkness is the shadow of my voice…”
• “Deaf is the leech of the night…” (Armenian)
• “Deaf is the leech of the night…”
• “Leaves, telling of delayed rains…” (Armenian)
• “Leaves, telling of delayed rains…”
• “The black birds of the lines…” (Armenian)
• “The black birds of the lines…”
• “Perhaps I am stone…” (Armenian)
• “Perhaps I am stone…”
• “The words are seeking torches…” (Armenian)
• “The words are seeking torches…”
• “Like a tree, which blossoms and thins nicely…” (Armenian)
• “Like a tree, which blossoms and thins nicely…”
• “In the snows of my heart…” (Armenian)
• “In the snows of my heart…”
• “The moon hung over the street like a billboard…” (Armenian)
• “The moon hung over the street like a billboard…”
• ANATOLI HOVHANNISYAN
• “I seek myself…” (Armenian)
• “I seek myself…”
• “A line of poetry…” (Armenian)
• “A line of poetry…”
• “A lost day on the calendar…” (Armenian)
• “A lost day on the calendar…”
• “The wind has burnt its lips…” (Armenian)
• “The wind has burnt its lips…”
• “You are asleep…” (Armenian)
• “You are asleep…”
• “I am lost in your fainting eyes…” (Armenian)
• “I am lost in your fainting eyes…”
• “I’m a breathless river…” (Armenian)
• “I’m a breathless river…”
• “The trees are alone…” (Armenian)
• “The trees are alone…”
• “Emptiness is filled with screams of fear…” (Armenian)
• “Emptiness is filled with screams of fear…”
• “I am all you have in life…” (Armenian)
• “I am all you have in life…”
• “I’m a fishing net…” (Armenian)
• “I’m a fishing net…”
• “I keep repeating my name…” (Armenian)
• “I keep repeating my name…”
• “I live in anticipation…” (Armenian)
• “I live in anticipation…”
• “I am alone…” (Armenian)
• “I am alone…”
• “Torn pieces of a painting…” (Armenian)
• “Torn pieces of a painting…”
• “Dust…” (Armenian)
• “Dust…”
• “The snow sleeps in the twilight…” (Armenian)
• “The snow sleeps in the twilight…”
• When the Wound Turns into a Callus (Armenian)
• When the Wound Turns into a Callus
• “Flattened on the motorway…” (Armenian)
• “Flattened on the motorway…”
• “I have woken…” (Armenian)
• “I have woken…”
• HASMIK SIMONIAN
• “In the solace of a white silence…” (Armenian)
• “In the solace of a white silence…”
• Hello (Armenian)
• Hello
• “Days were smoking cigarettes…” (Armenian)
• “Days were smoking cigarettes…”
• To Mary (Armenian)
• To Mary
• “Among the autumns which stretched and squeezed like an accordion…” (Armenian)
• “Among the autumns which stretched and squeezed like an accordion…”
• About the Editor & Translator