{"title":"Peter Balakian","description":"Peter Balakian is the author of nine books of poems including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ozone Journal. His memoir Black Dog of Fate won the PEN\/Albrand Award, and The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response was a New York Times bestseller. Balakian's work has been translated into many languages, and he teaches at Colgate University.","products":[{"product_id":"the-burning-tigris-the-armenian-genocide-and-americas-response-paperback","title":"The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Turkish government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I. And in the telling, he resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwarded the Raphael Lemkin Prize for the best scholarly book on genocide by the Institute for Genocide Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice\/CUNY Graduate Center. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this national bestseller, the critically acclaimed author Peter Balakian brings us a riveting narrative of the massacres of the Armenians in the 1890s and of the Armenian Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. Using rarely seen archival documents and remarkable first-person accounts, Balakian presents the chilling history of how the Turkish government implemented the first modern genocide behind the cover of World War I. And in the telling, he resurrects an extraordinary lost chapter of American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAwarded the Raphael Lemkin Prize for the best scholarly book on genocide by the Institute for Genocide Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice\/CUNY Graduate Center. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365572870367,"sku":"9780060558703","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/c6K7wUvhMo9780060558703.webp?v=1789066445"},{"product_id":"new-york-trilogy-paperback","title":"New York Trilogy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn American long poem in three sections by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian that moves between decades of tumultuous life in New York City and explosive parts of the Middle East.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In an inventive, elliptical language, \u003ci\u003eNew York Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e explores one man's journey from the late 1960s to the twenty-first century, as he moves through a series of experiences centered in New York City and the surrounding New Jersey Palisades. Throughout this long poem in three parts, the protagonist's life is impacted by historical events including the Armenian Genocide, the bombing of Hiroshima, the Vietnam War, the AIDS epidemic, the attacks of September 11th, the US war in Iraq, and the climate crisis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Comprised of three multi-sequence poems originally included in Peter Balakian's collections \u003ci\u003eNo Sign\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOzone Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eZiggurat\u003c\/i\u003e, the sections of \u003ci\u003eNew York Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e come together to form a poetry that embraces interior and aesthetic experiences, celebrates human intimacy, and bears witness to history. The historical power and psychological depth of Balakian's work expands on the tradition of the American long poem with a lyrical narrative that weaves intimate personal moments into the vastness of shared history. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378559287519,"sku":"9780226843742","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/suCgaXzLVx9780226843742.webp?v=1789258055"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/peter-balakian.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}