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PRAISE:
“Meri Tumanyan’s collection feels like a bouquet of soulful arrangements, part prayer, part remembrance, part elegiac memento. The Armenian language does not merely appear in these poems; it syncopates through them, sacred and resonant, grounding the reader in a symposium of sound that overflows from one piece to the next. Each poem carries the hush of kneeling, the ache of exile, and the inheritance of song. Tumanyan reminds us that language itself can be devotion, that a poem can hold memory the way hands hold bread, the way a hymn carries breath. In these pages, faith is not explained; it is sung.”
–Shahé Mankerian, author of History of Forgetfulness
“With an ear attuned to the whisper of prayers, Meri Tumanyan encapsulates the heady music of Armenian prayers and songs following the vespers of ancient churches. Tumanyan captures the silent reverie of prayer and its many uses, its many subjects and wishes. This is a book for the faithful and unfaithful, for all those seeking solace and ablution, and for all those seeking a greater power than themselves.”
–Arminé Iknadossian, author of All That Wasted Fruit
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