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New with Loss : Armen Davoudian s Swan Song - The Kenyon Review

Swan Song Durham, NC: Bull City Press, 2020. 40 pages. $12.00. In my first encounter with Armen Davoudian, the poet was already saying goodbye. “Wake-Up Call,” an elegant sonnet that is both self-elegy and familial love poem, describes with a disembodied intimacy Davoudian’s parents preparing breakfast, only to discover that he has disappeared:                                                                       I can hear around my head, against the coming light, for any moment now they will open the door and lift the covers and find that I’m not there. What I would come to admire the most in Davoudian’s debut collection Swan Song is concentrated in these concluding lines: a voice at once direct and elliptical, simultaneously announcing itself as inaugural and valedictory.

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