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Gevorg Emin has an entirely opposite conception of the craft. He takes pride in revealing the rational armature of poetry and the details of its construction. Some of his poems remind us of transparent watches where the movements and direction of each gear and lever are visible. But it is a watch
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Today if I write instead of building canals and power plants it is due to two things: the impact of meeting
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itself serves as an emblem of the endurance of his people. In "Song of Songs" he writes: "I am an
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Perhaps as a result of Emin's training in science, he writes in a simple, straight forward language. Edmond Y. Azadian, in the
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