{"product_id":"ozone-journal-9780226207032","title":"Ozone Journal","description":"\u003ci\u003efrom \"Ozone Journal\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bach's cantata in B-flat minor in the cassette, \u003cbr\u003e we lounged under the greenhouse-sky, the UVBs hacking\u003cbr\u003e at the acids and oxides and then I could hear the difference \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e between an oboe and a bassoon\u003cbr\u003e at the river's edge under cover--\u003cbr\u003e trees breathed in our respiration; \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e there was something on the other side of the river, \u003cbr\u003e something both of us were itching toward-- \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e radical bonds were broken, history became science.\u003cbr\u003e We were never the same. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The title poem of Peter Balakian's \u003ci\u003eOzone Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 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. In the dynamic, sensual language of these poems, we are reminded that the history of atrocity, trauma, and forgetting is both global and ancient; but we are reminded, too, of the beauty and richness of culture and the resilience of love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Balakian\u003c\/b\u003e is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in Humanities and professor of English at Colgate University. He is the author of seven books of poems, most recently of \u003ci\u003eZiggurat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJune-tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America's Response\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best seller, and \u003ci\u003eBlack Dog of Fate\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir. A new collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eVise and Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e, is also available this spring from the University of Chicago Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491624784146,"sku":"9780226207032","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bd8102de-6615-4d9f-a4ed-7c2018c811a9.jpg?v=1730544948","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ozone-journal-9780226207032","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}