Swan Song

By Armen Davoudian

A swan song is a song of departure: after a lifetime of silence, the legend goes, the mute swan breaks into song just before leaving this world for good. Armen Davoudian's Swan Song chronicles what it's like to take leave of a home, a country, a past life. In their search for a home in language, these poems combine the formal resources of English and Persian poetry, turning the immigrant's permanent sense of loss and rootlessness, the gay person's sense of alienation, into artistic assets-- positions of outsiderhood from which to witness and record.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949344177
• ISBN13: 9781949344172
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Bull City Press
• Length: 26 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.8"