Vol. XLV No. 177 Winter 2004

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

2

Peter Balakian

Speaking Tongues

Some Reflections on the Anahid Prize and Armenian-American Literature

6

Memoir

Black Dog of Fate, An Excerpt

9

Poetry

"Lowlands"
"August Diary"

12
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Laura Kalpakian

Anahid Award Reflections

17

Poetry

Accompaniment to "Winter Nocturne"
"Winter Nocturne"

19

Opera

"A Child of Our Times: Arc of the Libretto"

20

Diana Der-Hovanessian

Poetry

"Only One Other Poem"
"Armenian Needlework"
"The Oriental Bath" by Daniel Varoujan
"The Dance" by Siamanto
"We Shall Say to God" by Vahan Tekeyan
"Salt"
"Song of Bread"
"From Ruin to Ruin"
"Mixed Marriage"
"Two Armenians Walking on Sunday"
"Choral Singing"
"Why Every Armenian is a Poet"
"Exiles"

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On the Anahid Award

30

Peter Najarian

An Appreciation

32

Memoir

The Greatest Armenian Loneliness, An excerpt
Afterword

34
 
39

Gregory Djanikian

Poetry

"The Aestheticians of Genocide"
"Kharpert, Turkey 1915"
"Armenian Pastoral, 1915"
"Diaspora"
"First Supper in the New Country"
"I Ask My Grandmother If We Can Make Lahmajoun"
"Buying a Rug"
"Visiting Familiy"
"Imigrant Picnic"

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Commentary

"Why These Poems"

48

Eric Bogosian

Essay

"I am of Armenian Ancestry"

50

Fiction

Selections from
subUrbia
Griller
Mall
Humpty Dumpty
Notes from Underground
Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

 
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Atom Egoyan

Essay

Ararat: The Shooting Script, An Expert

58

Leslie Ayvazian

Introduction

61

Monolgue

Deaf Day

62

Mark Arax

Memoir

In My Father's Name, An Excerpt

66

Nancy Kricorian

Introduction and Poems

72

Poetry

"My Armenia"
"Armenia"
"The Bride Has Lost Her Tongue"
"The Conversion, 1941"
"The Survivor"
"Ghost Children"
"April"
"Saint Pain"
"The Angel"
"Poem for My Father's Voice"
"The Red Armenian Slippers"

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Chris Bohjalian

Appreciation

79

Fiction

Midwives, An Excerpt

79

Michelle Aharonian Marcom

Remarks

82

Fiction

The Daydreaming Boy, Two Excerpts

82

Viken Berberian

Non-Fiction

"No Remembrance of the Things They Passed"

87

Reviews

89

Letters

96