Translated by David Kherdian & Garig Basmadjian
Insomnia
Thundering thundering thundering horses
Stamping in the dark, beating with their shoes,
Beating and beating and beating the earth
An endless night a latent path.
They are here, they are here, stamping their shoes.
The shoes are stamping on my temples now —
A world unknown turns to dust.
"The title poem is one of the best lyric poems in American poetry."
—William Saroyan
Introduction by William Saroyan
David Kherdian anthologizes the lives of his brethren settled beside the Root River of his past. In this book, he provides portraits of the people with whom he experiences the rites of passage that are instrumental in helping to make him the man he becomes.
Published in a limited edition of 500 copies with only a few remaining.
In his eighth book of poems, David Kherdian describes urban living, capturing the pulse and vitality of the city streets and the nuances of the people who walk them. In the second part, the poet gives us short—but revealing—sketches about his relationship with his wife, their animals, and his craft.
...taking in the earliest times of David Kherdian’s life, growing up in Racine, Wisconsin in the late 1930s and 40s. "I’m going home," the poems say, each and every one, "I’m going back home where I belong."
—by Gerald Hausman from his introduction
The Song of the Stork and other early and ancient armenian songs. Translated by David Kherdian with drawings by Nonny Hogrogian.
A lyrical celebration of love in a difficult time, a retelling of a singe courtship and marriage. The Nonny Poems expand not only the possibilities of poetry, but—perhaps more importantly—the possibilities of love.
Poems from a Gurdjieff community, an anthology of David Kherdian’s nine-year poetic record at Two Rivers Farm.
An Anthology of Armenian American Writers
This outstanding collection from seventeen first generation Armenian American writers, each introduced by a writer of the second generation is intense, magical and filled with the love of life. The Anthology includes the writing of William Saroyan, Michael J. Arlen, A.I. Bezzerides and fourteen more of the best Armenian American writers of the first generation. Accompanying the selections are essays about each of the writers by contemporary second generation writers, including Mark Arax, Aris Janigian, Aram Saroyan and David Stephen Calonne.
