The palace of forty pillars

Wry, tender and formally innovative, Armen Davoudian's debut poetry collection, 'The Palace of Forty Pillars', tells the story of a self estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian in Iran, and an immigrant in America. It is a story darkened by the long shadow of global tragedies - the Armenian genocide, war in the Middle East, the specter of homophobia.