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It is What It is

Tamar M. Boyadjian

Published by: Yerevan, Andares Press

Copyright date: 2015

About the book

Experimental, concrete, and visual poetry in Armenian (includes other languages) which explores questions of language, identity, and translation.

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Through visual and experimental poetic form, the book tells the story of a troubadour grappling to find a means in language and sound to sing a canton of her childhood.  In its struggles and "failures" to express and narrate, the book's inter-textuality and hybridity explore and challenge themes related to language, subjectivity and translation; as well as reflect upon how the threat imposed on a dying language, such as Western Armenian, can manifest itself linguistically and textually. 

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