<p>Prize-winning poet and <em>New York Times</em>-bestselling author Peter Balakian offers the best of his previous poetry, as well as thirteen new poems.</p> <p>For three decades, Peter Balakian's poetry has been praised widely in the United States and abroad. He has created a unique voice in American poetry -- one that is both personal and cosmopolitan. In sensuous, elliptical language, Balakian offers a textured poetry that is beautiful and haunting as it envelops an American grain, the reverberations of the Armenian Genocide, and the wired, discordant realities of contemporary life.</p>