June-Tree - by Peter Balakian (Paperback)

From the Back Cover

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.

Review Quotes

"Political yet idiosyncratic...intense and soulful...Balakian eloquently mingles family history, the Armenian Genocide and memories of his childhood in suburban New Jersey." - New York Times Book Review
"Poems of considerable grace and sanguinary power." - Times Literary Supplement (London)
"Balakian transcends categories like personal/historical even as he fuses them...and is one of the few who have realized that memory is useless if none of us remembers the same things." - Poetry