David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted by one of the most devastating holocausts of our century. Vernon Dumehjian Kherdian was born into a loving and prosperous family. Then, in the year 1915, the Turkish government began the systematic destruction of its Armenian population.
In his long anticipated poetic memoir, internationally acclaimed author and poet David Kherdian continues his poetic reflections, focusing on the city of his youth, Racine, Wisconsin during the 1930's and 40's. The poems and prose explore the bittersweet childhood and adolescence of the now 84-year-old author: a time when the second generation of Armenian-Americans experienced not only the Depression and the war years, but also the anguish of dual identity, deracination, and discrimination. Meanwhile their impoverished parents, mostly peasants from the old country, were going through the trauma of genocide memories and survival in a strange land. The poems and prose of Root River Return spring from an ancient tradition and bear its stain. The poems are filtered through Kherdian's sensibilities that are uniquely Armenian, but welded to an American tongue and the solid background of his Midwestern beginnings. Kherdian addresses his life through these poems, digging beneath the events of each experience, pushing them into the light, and revealing their meanings.
David Kherdian's classic exploration of friendship, loss and renewal, in a Twenty-Fifth Anniversary edition, with new companion materials. These are poems that were written by David Kherdian after the death of his closest friend from childhood.
Awakening is about capturing the heart of those moments in our lives that impress our deepest feelings, with vivifying details that act as a mirror to stir our conscience. David Kherdian's work is clean and spare, and leaves the reader with an abiding sense of their own reality. His poetry exists in the mystic tradition of American poets such as Thoreau and Walt Whitman, poets who are often misunderstood in their own time.
Poet David Kherdian offers a retelling of poems and songs drawn from ancient Armenian texts that describe nature's unique relationship with humanity. These songs and poems contain a glimpse into characteristically humble yet troubled world outlook. Upon reading these deeply intimate writings, we tap into out collective faith and draw from that place in us that is reserved for the essential and true--from our own unspoiled reservoir of spirit, that understands what has been lost and can yet be regained.
Part spiritual pilgrimage, part historical epic, the folk novel Journey to the West, which came to be known as Monkey, is the most popular classic of Asian literature. Originally written in the sixteenth century, it is the story of the adventures of the rogue-trickster Monkey and his encounters with a bizarre cast of characters as he travels to India with the Buddhist pilgrim Tripitaka in search of sacred scriptures. Much more than a picaresque adventure novel, Monkey is a profound allegory of the struggle that must occur before spiritual transformation is possible. David Kherdian's masterful telling brings this classic of Chinese literature to life in a way that is true to the scope and depth of the original.
In Black Mountain Home, author David Kherdian returns to his poetic roots with a collection that truly captures the essence of what it means to be alive. Drawing inspiration from the lush mountainscapes of North Carolina, he takes the reader on an unforgettable backwoods sojourn as he describes nature's raw pureness with elegant simplicity.
In this short captivating memoir, Kherdian takes us on his long journey to become a writer: a journey of self-discovery and deliverance to a life he could not believe he would ever achieve. Following him, we often forget what he is searching for, but what does become apparent are the revealing patterns of his life that unfold uncontrollably, as determined by his fate, that he must uncover before he can realize his true destiny. This little book, a writer's testimony, also becomes a reader's story, as we move through and beyond Kherdian to find where each of us stands, for none of us can avoid the journey of our lives, and why we turn to artists, whose visions often provide a lens by which we can see ourselves.
Called one of the great epics of world literature, David of Sassoun dates back to the 9th century. It was first recorded in the 1870s by Armenian clerics.
Poet David Kherdian describes the day to day activities of a cat as he moves from the countryside to the big city. Beautiful woodcuts complement the elegantly simple verses of this collection. In a world where everything is hustle and bustle, COUNTRY CAT CITY CAT will remind even the most stressed or anxious among us to focus on the simpler things in life. From ages 9 to 99, there are nuggets of wisdom for all in this book.
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