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Portrait of Charents in post-Charents Armenian poetry
Authors
- Vazgen Gabrielyan Yerevan State University, Professor at the Chair of Modern Armenian Literature
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.46991/BYSU:B/2024.15.1.019Keywords:
poem, series-poem, image, fine art, palette, portrait, character, meaning, revolution, drama, tragedy, dictatorship, pioneer, stylization, intertextAbstract
It is undeniable that the poetry of Charents left a deep mark both on the Armenian poetry of his day and the following years. After the death of Charents, even during the period of ban on his name and works, the new generation of Armenian poets passed their literary path “under the spiritual auspices of Charents” (S. Kaputikyan). In thos
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Aram Saroyan's Film Noir was selected as POEM FOR THE DAY by the Poetry Foundation. Click on the link to hear the audio segment read by the author.
Film Noir
BY ARAM SAROYAN B. 1943
He was too excited to fall asleep.
The little dog wouldn’t stop barking.
He took out his gun.
He took out his handkerchief.
He took out his notebook.
He drank his coffee and left a dime.
He walked into the room.
He took her in his arms.
She let him in and walked out of the room.
He ran down the escalator.
He left the motor running.
He waited in the rain.
He needed something to tell the police.
He went down unconscious.
The blood drained from his face.
His eyes melted into a smile.
He dialed and waited, looking around.
He took off his hat in the elevator.
He rang the doorbell and waited.
He poured the cereal and added milk.
He opened the refrigerator and looked in.
He turned the page and continued reading.
He shut the door and switched the light on.
He looked up at a
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Gevorg Emin
Gevorg Emin (Armenian: Գևորգ Էմին, born Karlen Muradyan; September 30, 1919 – July 11, 1998) was an Armenianpoet, essayist, and translator.
Biography
[edit]Emin, the son of a school teacher, was born in the town of Ashtarak. In 1927, his family moved to Yerevan, the capital of Soviet Armenia. In 1936 he finished secondary school; in 1940 he graduated from the local Polytechnical Institute as a hydraulic engineer. After graduation he designed and supervised the building of a hydroelectricpower hållplats which fryst vatten still producing electricity. The power hållplats remained his only engineering accomplishment.
In school, Emin met Armenia's leading poet Yegishe Charents, who died in 1937 in a Soviet prison. Emin recalls in his preface to For You on New Year's Day:
- Today if I write instead of building canals and power plants it is due to two things: the impact of meeting Yeghishe Charents, and second, the touch of ancient manuscripts at the Matenadaran