Tag Archives: Yerevan

The awe of Ararat…

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~It rained all day yesterday in Yerevan, a light drizzle but raw to the bone. At night, the weather turned beautiful, foretelling, I hoped, of the day to come, sunny and crisp and alive. This morning, Ararat is a shimmer … Continue reading →

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Rough beauty…

Posted on September 1, 2017 by Taline Voskeritchian

Apples are ordinary; strawberries and figs are explicit; pears are restrained, even hesitant.  Watermelons, cantaloupes, and honeydew possess the self-consciousness of the corpulent.  But the peach is in a class by itself. On an August afternoon, a peach or two … Continue reading →

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A Volga in Yerevan…

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Taline Voskeritchian

The weather is changing in Yerevan; winter is almost here. The evening, especially, are on the cold side, often rainy, the streets wet under the light drizzle. It’s true what everyone says about such Yerevan evenings, when you leave a … Continue reading →

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The Eyes of Yerevan

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Taline Voskeritchian

This essay of mine appeared in Agni Review, #49, 1999. Given all that has happened in Armenia in the last 15 years or so, not to mention the urban and human transformation of Yerevan during this period, the essay is … Continue reading →

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Finding Zabel Yessayan–and losing her

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Taline Voskeritchian

Zabel Yessayan–the mere utterance of the name echoes with what Marc Nichanian describes, in Western Armenian, as հմայք, whose closest English equivalent would be allure. Nichanian’s chapter on Yessayan in his Writers of Disaster makes for a devastating reading–her tumultuous … Continue reading →

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From my Files: Paradjanov’s Home of the Imagination

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Taline Voskeritchian

~~Over the years, I have penned some half a dozen pieces of writing about Sergei Paradjanov, the great Soviet-era film-maker, collage artist, and political trouble-maker and renegade. Below is a review I wrote for artsMedia, a Boston news magazine which … Continue reading →

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Demonstrations: Cynicism and its discontents

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Taline Voskeritchian

It’s odd–isn’t it?– that more than two decades after the beginning of the perestroika demonstrations (remember those?), we hear the same reserved comments, the same fears, the same platitudes as demonstrators turn the entire edifice of another Arab military dictatorship … Continue reading →

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