June-Tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000

Prize-winning poet and New York Times -bestselling author Peter Balakian offers the best of his previous poetry, as well as thirteen new poems. For three decades, Peter Balakian's poetry has been praised widely in the United States and abroad. He has created a unique voice in American poetry -- one that is both personal and cosmopolitan. In sensuous, elliptical language, Balakian offers a textured poetry that is beautiful and haunting as it envelops an American grain, the reverberations of the Armenian Genocide, and the wired, discordant realities of contemporary life.

Peter Balakian is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities in the department of English at Colgate University.

Author's Note	p. x
New Poems
Photosynthesis	p. 3
The Tree	p. 5
Yorkshire Dales	p. 6
Killary Harbor	p. 8
In Armenia, 1987	p. 10
Lowlands	p. 11
Night Patio	p. 14
Ellis Island	p. 18
Train to Utica	p. 19
The Children's Museum at Yad Vashem	p. 23
Harpert, Revisited	p. 24
Parable for Vanished Countries	p. 26
Jade Boat	p. 27
From Dyer's Thistle (1996)
August Diary	p. 31
Physicians	p. 37
My Father on the Berengaria, 1926	p. 41
World War II	p. 42
The Oriental Rug	p. 47
Duck 'n' Cover, 1953	p. 53
Flat Sky of Summer	p. 54
Rock 'n' Roll	p. 57
Saigon/New Jersey	p. 58
Out of School	p. 59
First Communion	p. 60
Woodstock	p. 61
Last Days Painting (August 1973)	p. 62
Post Vietnam	p. 65
American Dreaming	p. 69
Mandelstam in Armenia, 1930	p. 73
Geese Flying Over Hamilton, New York	p. 74
The Backyard	p. 76
A Toast	p. 77
My Son Stares into a Tulip	p. 78
Morning News	p. 80
The End of the Reagan Era	p. 82
In Church	p. 83
A Letter to Wallace Stevens	p. 88
After the Survivors Are Gone	p. 91
Ocean	p. 92
From Reply from Wilderness Island (1988)
The Creases	p. 95
Night Blue Fishing on Block Island	p. 97
Thoreau at Nauset	p. 100
To Arshile Gorky	p. 102
Camille Claudel, Some Notes	p. 104
Poppies	p. 107
Parts of Peonies	p. 109
Domestic Lament	p. 110
A Version of Paolo and Francesca	p. 112
I Wish Us Back to Mud	p. 114
Blood Pudding, Antigua, W.I.	p. 115
Fish Mouth	p. 118
A Country House	p. 120
Mussel Shell	p. 121
Jersey Bait Shack	p. 122
From Sad Days of Light (1983)
The History of Armenia	p. 125
Road to Aleppo, 1915	p. 128
Post-Traumatic Shock, Newark, New Jersey, 1942	p. 129
The Claim	p. 131
Granny, Making Soup	p. 140
Three Museum Offerings (Native American Artifacts at the Whitney)	p. 145
That Is Why This Day Passes Like a Thousand Lilies	p. 147
The Rise in the Night	p. 149
Seferis Returning to Smyrna, 1950	p. 151
For My Grandmother, Coming Back	p. 153
From Father Fisheye (1979)
After We Split	p. 157
Winter Revival	p. 158
A Sequence of Wind Between Seasons	p. 159
Graham House, April '76	p. 160
Approaching the Summer Solstice	p. 161
Letting the Fog In	p. 164
To Hart Crane	p. 165
Robert Lowell Near Stockbridge	p. 167
"My Mother Is a Fish"	p. 168
Father Fisheye	p. 171
Words for My Grandmother	p. 172
The Field of Poppies	p. 173
Notes	p. 175
Acknowledgments	p. 177
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June-Tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000

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