Becoming a Writer
Published on 8. May 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
78 pages
978-1-948730-93-8 (ISBN)
Description
We are the moments that shape us…
Every conversation, every minute on the job, every daydream, every chance encounter—these moments all add up to something much greater than the sum of their parts. If cultivated properly, each of these disjointed moments can spark magic within and help us become who we are truly meant to be in this world.
In Becoming a Writer, David Kherdian lays out some selected memories, moments, and places in time that proved critical in shaping his soul as an editor, poet, and writer.
We all have a story tell…
David captures the magic of each moment of life and encourages us all to do the same.
From his early childhood memories walking up and down the streets of Racine, Wisconsin with his gang of friends to crushing disappointment at the hands of overly critical school teachers…
From his days as a door-to-door magazine salesman all the way to Japan on the eve of the war in Korea…
From a stint compiling the works of the Beat Poets in San Francisco to decoding the raw emotion contained in his mother’s own memoirs…
Becoming a Writer is more than just a memoir. In detailing the defining moments of his life, David Kherdian also provides us with a guide to help capture the magic within our own lives, put it to paper, and ultimately share it with the world.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
111 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-948730-93-8 (9781948730938)
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David Kherdian is the author and editor of over eighty books, that include poetry, novels, memoirs, biographies retellings and children's books. His anthologies include Beat Voices, and two seminal works: Settling America: The Ethnic Expression of 14 Contemporary Poets and Forgotten Bread: Armenian American Writers of the First Generation. With his wife, two-time Caldecott Medalist, Nonny Hogrogian, they have managed three small presses, and as editor/art director, three disparate journals: Ararat: A Quarterly, Forkroads: A Journal of Ethnic-American Literature, and Stopinder: A Gurdjieff Journal for Our Time. He has, with his presses, journals and anthologies, along with is own work, helped to place ethnic writing into the canon of American literature. It was following their flight from America after the 2017 election that Kherdian's long dormancy iin that form, that his poetry moved to a higher plane, resulting in his putting this book together with old work and new poems.His many awards include the Newbery Honor Book, The Friends of American Writers Award, the Boston Globe / Horn Book Award, the Jane Addams Award, a nomination for The American Book Award, and two lifetime achievement awards, The Emily Lee Award from his hometown, and The Armenian Star Award. His translations and retellings include the Asian Classic, Monkey: A Journey to the Wes, and the 9th century epic from Armenia, David of Sassoun, now out of print, with tentative plans for its reissue, being the book Kherdian considers his highest achievement as a writer. An hour long documentary of his poetry and life by filmmaker Jim Belleau was released in 1997, and can now be seen among his YouTube appearances.