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Sto caricando le informazioni... Root River Returndi David Kherdian
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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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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He is embarrassed by his parents ("filling the American landscape with their old / country ways, making us yearn desperately / for what we imagined the "American" kids / we chummed with had"). He resents school ("The best part of school / was the window I looked / out of . . ."). He desires freedom but is not quite sure what that is.
Yet, some of my favorite pieces are about trying to reconcile his childhood emotions and memories of his family with the true and complicated people they really were: "Baseball and Father"; "Uncle Jack"; "In Father's Garden"; "Histories"; "1950"; "Root River"; "Private Bakaian." And despite his academic and behavioral struggles, there are a few good school memories, too, poems such as "The Art of Kindergarten" and "Dear Mrs. McKinney of the Sixth Grade" and essays like "Mr. Huber."
David is most at home by the water. It centers him ("For the calm of the lake was in us" and "But what I liked about water was that it helped me to dream. I could follow Root River with my imagination and let it take me to all the places of the world I had never been . . ."). He asks questions of the water. He finds answers.
But the brilliance of this collection is more than the subjects he chooses. It's in the words he chooses that place us not only in Racine with him, but speak to our hearts about our own misgivings and misunderstandings, wonderings and wanderings: "the held breath of grace"; "older, quieter sun"; "youth-wounded." As a bonus, his cover is graced by the work of Nonny Hogrogian, his artist wife.
David invites you to "come now and add your / incense to the hour." I encourage you to do so.
Available from Beech Hill Publishing.http://www.beechhillpublishingcompany.com/new-books-1.html (