Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body by Bedikian, Lory

Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496240125)

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Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body by Bedikian, Lory

Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body

$17.95
Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body by Bedikian, Lory

Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body presents the voice of a daughter of immigrant parents, now gone, from Lebanon and Syria and of Armenian descent. In this four-part testimony Lory Bedikian reconstructs the father figure, mother figure, and the self and concludes with an epilogue. Using a sestina, syllabics, prose poems, and longer poetic sequences, Bedikian creates elegies for parents lost and self-elegiac lyrics and narratives for living with illness. Often interrupted with monologues and rants, the poems grapple with the disorder of loss and the body's failures. Ultimately, Bedikian contemplates the concept of fate, destiny (jagadakeer), and the excavation of memory--whether to question familial inheritance or claim medical diagnoses.


Author: Lory Bedikian
ISBN-10: 149624012X
ISBN-13: 9781496240125
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2024
Pages: 108
Format: Paperback
By Lory Bedikian
By Lory Bedikian
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Lory Bedikian is the author of The Book of Lamenting, winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Her poems have been published in multiple journals, including Tin House, the Adroit Journal, the Los Angeles Review, and Gulf Coast. She teaches poetry workshops in Los Angeles.

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