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A swan song is a song of departure: after a lifetime of silence, the legend goes, the mute swan breaks into song just before leaving this world for good. Armen Davoudian' s Swan Song chronicles what it' s like to take leave of a home, a country, a past life. In their search for a home in language, these poems combine the formal resources of English and Persian poetry, turning the immigrant' s permanent sense of loss and rootlessness, the gay person' s sense of alienation, into artistic assets— positions of outsiderhood from which to witness and record.
