Wasafiri 120: Armenia(n)s – Elevation
Pre-order your copy of WASAFIRI's 120th issue, which contains over a hundred pages of Armenian poetry, articles, reviews and essays.
Congratulations to the editors for this year long endeavor.
Contents
Editorial
Light Through Our Ruptures
Tatevik Ayvazyan and Naneh V Hovhannisyan
Lead Feature
Two Armenians Conversing in Two Armenians: Tamar Marie Boyadjian and Hrach Martirosyan
Tamar Marie Boyadjian and Hrach Martirosyan, trans. by Maral Aktokmakyan
Articles
Western Armenian: The Curious Story of a Surviving Language and Its Literature
Maral Aktokmakyan
Soviet-Armenian Gulag Literature: At the Crossroads of Ethics and Aesthetics
Siranush Dvoyan, trans. Shushan Avagyan
Life Writing
When I Became an Armenian-American Writer
Chris Bohjalian
Dear Shogher: Letters to Myself
Shogher Sargsyan, trans. Margarit Ordukhanyan
His Driving Life
Nancy Kricorian
I Want Nice Things
Lusine Hovhannisyan, trans. Thomas Toghramadjian
Evenings in Diaspora
Slyvia Alajaji
Interviews
The Great Repatriation and its Reverberations: An Interview with Hovhannes Margaryan
Tigran Paskevichyan, trans. by Nanor Kebranian
The Past of the Future: A Conversation with Armen Davoudian
Fatemeh Shams
At an Unknown Location: Hovhannes Jean-Chat Tekgyozyan on Language as Asylum
Anush Kocharyan
Art
Recreating Home in Exile: The Armenian Memory Book as Art, Artefact, and Roadmap
Garine Boghossian, Christopher Kazar Janigian, Masha Keryan, and Khatchig Mouradian
Fiction
cenotaph
Aram Pachyan, trans. Nazareth Seferian
Before You Fall Asleep
Christian Batikian, trans. Jesse S Arlen
Loneliness
Narine Abgaryan, trans. Margarit Ordukhanyan and Zara Torlone
Ararat
Anna Davtyan, trans. Hayk Hambartsum
Poetry
Անժողովուրդ Լեզու/Unpeopled Language
Krikor Beledian, trans. Taline Voskeritchian and Christopher Millis
Aleppo, 1915: Surviving After the Survival; when the wolves come thrashing; Dream Dictionary
Perla Kantarjian
Five Untitled Poems
Marine Petrossian, trans. Arthur Kayzakian and the author
Letters from a Roman Friend
Vahagn Atabekyan, trans. Susan Barba
Letters 'To The Roman'
Mher Arshakyan, trans. Susan Barba
Poetry/Բանաստեղծութիւն; Words/Բառեր
Tenny Arlen, trans. Jesse S Arlen
Estranged; Photograph of a Dead Star; Death March; My Father on YouTube; Human Rights Violation Request
Arthur Kayzakian
Resurrection; Time; Love Song/Սիրերգութիւն
Zahrad, trans. Lola Koundakjian
Review Essay
Delimiting Diaspora
Stateless: The Politics of the Armenian Language in Exile - Talar Chahinian
The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power: Collective Identity in the Transnational 20th Century - Talar Chaninian, Sossie Kasbarian, and Tsolin Nalbantian, eds
displaced հատում - Ara Oshagan and Krikor Beledian, trans. Taline Voskeritchian and Christopher Millis
Myrna Douzjian
Reviews
Early Modernity & Mobility: Port Cities and Printers Across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512 - 1800 - Sebouh David Aslanian
Artyom Tonoyan
No Sign - Peter Balakian
Chris McCabe
History of the Armenians, Volumes I and II - Kirakos Gandzakets'i, trans. Robert Bedrosian.
Nik Matheou
In Everything I See Your Hand - Naira Kuzmich
The Fear of Large and Small Nations - Nancy Agabian
Olivia Katrandjian
From the Depths of the Heart: Annotated Translation of the Prayers of St. Gregory of Narek - Abraham Terian, trans.
Yeghishé Charents: Souls on Fire: Selected Poems (A Bilingual Edition) - Tatul Sonentz, trans., Viken Tufenkjian. ed
Eddie Arnavoudian
A Book, Untitled - Shushan Avagyan, trans. Deanna Cachoian-Schanz
Helen Vassallo
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City - Matthew Teller
Sato Moughalian
The Institute for Other Intelligences - Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
We Are All Armenians: Voices from the Diaspora - Aram Mrjoian, ed
Garen Torikian
