Ozone Journal

Download or read book Ozone Journal written by Peter Balakian and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title poem of Peter Balakian's 'Ozone Journal' is a sequence of fifty-four short sections, each a poem in itself, recounting the speaker's memory of excavating the bones of Armenian genocide victims in the Syrian desert with a crew of television journalists in 2009. These memories spark others - the dissolution of his marriage, his life as a young single parent in Manhattan in the nineties, visits and conversations with a cousin dying of AIDS - creating a montage that has the feel of history as lived experience. Bookending this sequence are shorter lyrics that span times and locations, from Nairobi to the Native American villages of New Mexico