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Join us for the final installment of our reading series, Literary Lights 2024: Featuring Lory Bedikian, author of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry winner, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body! Bedikian will be joined by award-winning poet, essayist and professor, Brian Turner. The event, co-sponsored by the University Of Nebraska Press and Prairie Schooner, will take place virtually on September 21, 2024 at 10:00 AM Pacific | 1:00 PM Eastern | 9:00 PM Armenia time. Learn more and register below. Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body presents the voice of a daughter of immigrant parents, now gone, from Lebanon and Syria and of Armenian descent. In this five-part testimony Lory Bedikian reconstructs the father figure, mother figure, and the self. Using a sestina, syllabics, prose poems, and longer poetic sequences, Bedikian creates elegies for parents lost and self-elegiac lyrics and narratives for living with illness. Often interrupted with monologues and rants, the poems grapple with the disorder of loss and the body’s failures. Ultimately, Bedikian contemplates the concept of fate, destiny (jagadakeer), and the excavation of memory—whether to question familial inheritance or claim medical diagnoses. National Association for Armenian Studies and Research #IALA #armliterary #armenian #literature #writing #books #publishing #reading #poetry
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