Ozone Journal
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- Synopsis
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The title poem of Peter Balakian's Ozone Journal is a sequence of fifty-four short sections, each a poem in itself, recounting the speaker's memory of excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a crew of television journalists in 2009. These memories spark others—the dissolution of his marriage, his life as a young single parent in Manhattan in the nineties, visits and conversations with a cousin dying of AIDS—creating a montage that has the feel of history as lived experience. Bookending this sequence are shorter lyrics that span times and locations, from Nairobi to the Native American villages of New Mexico. In the dynamic, sensual language of these poems, we are reminded that the history of atrocity, trauma, and forgetting is both global and ancient; but we are reminded, too, of the beauty and richness of culture and the resilience of love.
Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Copyright:
- 2015
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 93 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780226207179
- Publisher:
- The University of Chicago Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/04/15
- Copyrighted By:
- The University of Chicago Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.