Beschrijving

My Library series offers Moushegh Ishkhan’s poems collection. Moushegh Ishkhan was an Armenian Diasporan poet, writer and educator. Orphaned during the Armenian Genocide at the age of two, Ishkhan was raised in Beirut, Lebanon. His first book of poems was published in 1936. He also published plays, novels, and a series of textbooks on Armenian literature in addition to his well-known poetry. According to Ishkhan, in the absence of territory for the Armenian diaspora it is the language that functions as the ‘space’ for imagining the nation: \