Literary Corner
New poetry collection from Pulitzer Prize winning author Peter Balakian

Peter Balakian wrestles with national and global cultural and political realities, including challenges for the human species amid planetary transmutation and the impact of mass violence on the self and culture. At the collection’s heart is “No Sign,” another in Balakian’s series of long form poems, following “A-Train/Ziggurat/Elegy” and “Ozone Journal,” which appeared in his previous two collections. In this dialogical multi-sectioned poem, an estranged couple encounters each ot




Balakian is a creative genius whose writings in prose and poetry captures the dilemmas, obsessions and political cross currents of contemporary America. As a public intellectual, he has done more to highlight the grim history of Armenians who suffered from the genocide and whose descendants are still dealing with its psychological and emotional trauma.