Hmayeak Shems A Poet of Pure Spirit

Name: Hmayeak Shems A Poet of Pure Spirit
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ISBN: 9780761850540

ISBN-10: 0761850546

ISBN-13: 9780761850540

Edition: 2010

Authors: Vahï¿½ Baladouni, John Gery, Vahï¿½ Baladouni

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Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/2/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 134
Size: 6.09" wide x 9.18" long x 0.29" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

James M. Welsh is co-editor of The Literature/Film Reader (Scarecrow, 2007) and The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia (Scarecrow, 2010).



List of Photographs


Preface


Acknowledgments


Reference Key


A Chronology of Hmayeak Shems


A Diasporan Journey: Cities Where Shems Visited and Lived



Student, Rebel, and Wandering Dervish: From Trabzon to the Caucasus and the Balkans


Prologue: Shems, the Dervish-"that Hapless, Tattered Nobleman"


Growing Up in Trabzon


A Turbulent Secondary School Education


Heading for Ejmiatsin and Erevan


First Teaching Appointment


The Day the Sun Darkened: the Armenian Genocide of 1915


The Aftershock


A Reunion of Survivors


A Voice from the Depths of the Soul



Poet, Scholar, Orator, and Teacher: Alexandria


Making Sense of His New Environment


Flight to Paris


Moment of Truth


Two Publications: Roshnakan and Sayat' Nova


Chashka Chaï¿½: Around a Cup of Tea


Repatriation: Depi erkir [Homeward Bound!]


Serving the Word and Poetry


The Passion that Chose Shems


His Waning Years


Epilogue: Hmayeak Shems-this Man, this Poet



"A Portrait of Hmayeak Shems"




"The Hmayeak Shems I Knew"




An Undated Draft Letter to Levon Hovhannesian Written



Notes


Acronyms and Abbreviations


Selected Bibliography


Index