You Must Become Field

By: Kantarjian, Perla

The debut collection from Lebanese-Armenian poet, Perla Kantarjian, You Must Become Field moves with astonishing fluidity, from the 1915 arrest of Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople to a 2025 Beirut club bathroom where girls fix each other's eyeliner between airstrikes. Kantarjian braids the Armenian Genocide's long aftermath with the urgent present: Lebanon's economic collapse, the Beirut Port explosion's glass rain, Artsakh's exodus, war in Lebanon-without flattening either into metaphor. Here is girlhood and nationhood, seedless grapes at Tesco, wedding preparations and war, all held in the same devoted attention.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1918605165
• ISBN13: 9781918605167
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Bad Betty Press
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"