The Palace of Forty Pillars

“Brilliant and deft and heartfelt."―Richie Hofmann Wry, tender, and formally innovative, Armen Davoudian’s debut poetry collection, The Palace of Forty Pillars , tells the story of a self estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian in Iran, and an immigrant in America. It is a story darkened by the long shadow of global tragedies―the Armenian genocide, war in the Middle East, the specter of homophobia. With masterful attention to rhyme and meter, these poems also carefully witness the most intimate the awkward distance between mother and son getting ready in the morning, the delicate balance of power between lovers, a tense exchange with the morality police in Iran.

In Isfahan, Iran, the eponymous palace has only twenty pillars―but, reflected in its courtyard pool, they become forty. This is the gamble of Davoudian’s magical, ruminative to recreate, in art’s reflection, a home for the speaker, who is unable to return to it in life.

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