Published in 2021, Journey to Tatev by Lillian Avedian is the first [*] published collection of poetry by a poet who identifies as a Queer Armenian woman.
Lillian Avedian is an Armenian-American journalist and poet from Los Angeles, California. Her writing has previously been published in the Armenian Weekly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Hetq and the Daily Californian. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Peace and Conflict Studies and Armenian Language and Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Journey to Tatev is her first published poetry collection.
“Journey to Tatev is a love poem to the self and to the other, written along the trajectory of a single journey. These airy, deeply rhythmic poems encompass the multi-lingual voice of a migrant, coming-of-age, coming out, coming to terms with the past and future simultaneously. Words and notes dance across the page, engaging all of the senses in this vibrant and deeply moving collection.”
Review by Magdalena Ball, Compulsive Reader
“let me be! I do not want to be here I do not want to be queer I want to vanish away I do not want to fight I want to melt…”.
Poem 39, Journey to Tatev
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ISBN: 9781008990203. Published by Girls on Key Press.
