Book Release Event: Meet Tamar Boyadjian, author of "it is what it is (inch vor eh an eh)"
Sunday, October 4, 2015 5:00pm
Abril Bookstore cordially invites you to meet
TAMAR BOYADJIAN
author of the newly published book of poems
it is what it is
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2015 at 5:00pm
ABRIL BOOKSTORE - 415 E. Broadway, Glendale, CA 91205
Presentation will be in Armenian. Admission is free with reception to follow. For more information, call (818) 243-4112.
it is what it is, through visual and experimental poetic form, tells the story of a troubadour grappling to find a means in language and sound to sing a canton of her childhood. In its struggles and "failures" to express and narrate, the book's inter-textuality and hybridity explore and challenge themes related to language, subjectivity and translation; as well as reflect upon how the threat imposed on a dying language, such as Western Armenian, can manifest itself linguistically and textually.
TAMAR BOYADJIAN was born in the "View of Mountains," but her life has been that of a wandering troubadour. She teaches medieval literature (and the literature of other people and cultures) as well as creative writing at Michigan State University. She is also involved with the Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan. From time she was very young, she believed herself to be a knight[ess]. Her world is habitually medieval, though she also visits other worlds from time to time. She believes that certain truths quiescently play in the interstices of life, which are oftentimes indistinct and remain that way. Tamar Boyadjian is her life's artist.
