Assure Press publishes Michael Minassian’s poetry collection, Jack Pays a Visit

Assure Press has published Michael Minassian’s Jack Pays a Visit, a chapbook of poems centered around the character Jack Karapetian (1925-1994), who wrote under the pen name of Hakob Karapents. Born in Tabriz, Iran, Jack was a prolific Armenian-American writer who wrote almost exclusively in Armenian.

Robert Wexelblatt, author of Hsi-wei Tales and Girl Asleep and Other Poems, writes, “Jack haunts the poet like memory itself and is himself haunted “by the ghosts of Persian poets and forgotten deities.” With its short lines and striking similes, invoking folklore and fable, past joys and pains, Jack Pays a Visit is an intimate, eloquent and affecting testament with a dramatic revelation in its title poem.